From what a fellow here at the office said, about every 30 seconds a new
window with a new ad pops up.  You can't kill the window, you can only move
it out of the way.  Also, you MUST click on at least one ad every 30
minutes or you get disconnected.  And to make it more interesting,
apparently there is some random-interval "Are you still paying attention to
the screen?" window that pops up.  If you don't respond to that window in
60 seconds, you get disconnected.  Using the WRQ stack and dialer?  You are
out of luck.  He couldn't get it to work "cooperatively" with his existing
software as he said he ran into a conflict with the Microsoft Dial Up
Networking that Netzero wants to use.

Again, all the above is second-hand info, so perhaps someone with
first-hand knowledge can give us the real scoop.

Personally, I hate seeing ads and would continue to pay my ISP fee to avoid
them (ads, that is).

John

At 5/17/99 12:07 PM , Jeff Woods wrote:
>At 5/17/99 10:37 AM , Efren Castro wrote:
>>Were starting to get free internet access here in the U.S. look at
>>http://www.netzero.com, download the software, answer a couple of
>>questions and boom you have free internet access.
>
>OK, so I still believe "TANSTAAFL."  What's the catch?  Is it subsidized by ad
>revenue?  Do they sell subscriber access demographics?  They "borrowing" idle
>CPU cycles and disk space on my system?  (See also http://www.distributed.net
>and MS/Office/FastFind. ;)  Sounds to me like they  must be loosing money on
>every customer and trying to make it up in volume.  I can't seem to
acquire the
>needed "suspension of disbelief".
>--
>Jeff Woods
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John Korb                            email: [log in to unmask]
Innovative Software Solutions, Inc.

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