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.FLYINGHEAD LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
.TITLE A question on emailing and feedback on vote mailing
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.SUMMARY In this month’s edition of Letters to the Editor, a reader has a question about handheld email access, and we present a selection of responses to a November 6 mailing we sent encouraging everyone to vote. If that worries you, rest assured this article is guaranteed to be 100% free of chad references.
.EDNOTE In this month’s edition of Letters to the Editor, a reader has a question about handheld email access, and we present a selection of responses to a November 6 mailing we sent encouraging everyone to vote. If that worries you, rest assured this article is guaranteed to be 100% free of chad references.
.H1 Access denied
I am using a Handspring Visor with an AvantGo server and EarthLink as an ISP (Internet Service Provider). I got the Hotmail homepage, but I was never able to enter. I could even create a new Hotmail account but never accessed it with my PDA. Do I have to download some browser for the PDA? Which one do you recommend?
Thank you,
Leonardo
.H2 Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz responds
Interesting question. AvantGo is a download tool, fundamentally. You don’t have to be connected to the Internet while you read Web pages, only while performing a HotSync operation. If you want to read Web pages dynamically, you need to be connected via a modem or wireless device. Now, which browser will work best depends on which connection you have. If you’re using OmniSky, for example, you might want to use the DPWeb PQA, which is quite good. On the other hand, if you’ve got a wired modem and you’re using a TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) connection, ProxiWeb’s quite good.
But if you’re not wired to the Web, AvantGo’s probably your best choice, and that, as far as I know, rules out Hotmail.
.H1 Every vote counts
Here are some great letters we received from people regarding an email we sent out on November 6, encouraging people to go out and vote in the presidential election.
.H2 Good work
Thank you for taking the time to ask people to vote. It is good to see people that are interested and to see companies that support that position. Keep up the good work.
Earl C. Robinson
Salisbury Planning and Design
.H2 Peer approval
I hope your message was met with acceptance. Looks like you hit it right on the head.
Vote!!!
Andrew Dyer
TIME Magazine
.H2 Beyond our borders
You would do a lot more to convince the world that America is no longer so parochial that it considers it’s borders to be the world if you didn’t remind those of us that are NOT American to vote.
I appreciate that you guys consider it important and to a certain extent share your sense of the moment simply because I have no doubt that whatever happens will affect us too, but I would feel a lot more positive about the entire process if I had faith that you guys had a properly global view. Maybe that just comes of just being small enough to be tossed about on the waves of world opinion rather than being able to ride rough shod across them.
Having said all that, it’s fascinating to sit this side of the pond and watch the drama unfold, especially as it will be our turn in a few months, and I suspect that our turn will be just as critical to us!!
Regards and all the best,
Nick
.H2 Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz responds
I agree. As I told another reader, we’re still getting used to this global thing. There are just a few of us here, we rarely leave Princeton, and it sometimes boggles our mind that there are readers not only in the UK, but in some really faraway places. We didn’t set out to make our journals international (we just tried to make them interesting), but the nature of the Web is such that there are readers all over.
It’s important that we get reminded of this from time to time. It’s pretty special that words I wrote late one night to try to be a good citizen are being read all over the world… but with that awareness comes the need to address a much wider audience.
.H2 More kind words
I think your reminder to vote was a great thing, thank you. I also wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your service and all the articles you provide.
Randy
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.H1 Product availability and resources
For more information on AvantGo, visit http://www.avantgo.com.
For more information on EarthLink, visit http://www.earthlink.com.
For more information on Hotmail, http://www.hotmail.com.
For more information on OmniSky, visit http://www.omnisky.com.
For more information on DPWeb, visit http://www.dpweb.com.
For more information on ProxiWeb, visit http://www.proxinet.com/.
For more information on TCP/IP connections, visit http://www.protocols.com/pbook/tcpip.htm.
For more information about Palm computers, visit http://www.palm.com.
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