Appendix 7:
Services Offering
Access to the Internet

Internet Access Providers Meta-List
TheDirectory.org
NetAlert.com
Netusa.net
TheList

International E-mail accessibility - World Map is a system of clickable maps which lets you obtain further information about E-mail and Internet access in a country of your choice.
If you want it real cheap, check if there's a Free-Net offering in your area. Try: http://www.lights.com/freenet/ on the Web for more.
If you live in the US, and want completely free access, check the FreeISPs mailing list.

Travelling abroad

EUnet Traveller

With one login name and one password, you can connect through thousands of points-of-presence (POP) around the world. You don't pay when you don't connect, so you can have an EUnetTraveller account stand-by without paying for it. It has has well over 3000 "POPs" (1999). For current list of countries, see http://traveller.eu.net/html/pops.html.
I have used in Perú, Bolivia, Brazil, Puerto Rico, the United States, Romania, The Netherlands, Norway of course, and several other places. Neat!

CompuServe

For years, I used CompuServe for Internet access when far away from home. Today, I have it in case EUnetTraveller should fail to deliver.
The service has local nodes in a very large number of countries around the world. Type GO PHONES to get phone numbers in your destination cities. If your mail normally goes to a Unix mailbox, use the .forward file to redirect it to CompuServe before leaving home.
If you are in a country with no local access, or in a place where you have to make an expensive long distance call to a slow node, consider calling direct to CompuServe's own nodes in the United States at high speed.
Example: In Lagos, Nigeria, I connected successfully at 14,400 bits/s with compression to a CompuServe node in the United States. This was much cheaper and better than calling nearby South Africa at 2400 bits/s through an Infonet network node (1994).