Alternatives to InternetTrash

Hello ...

We have had a pause in the tutorial material to allow
new subscribers to catch up, and to try to identify
common experiences before moving on.

Most subscribers have been completely successful, but
a small number of people have had persistent problems,
all of them resulting from unpredictable behaviour of
the InternetTrash database.

So far, no clear pattern has emerged, and our only
conclusions have been that when things go wrong:
* It nearly always involves the alias.
* The problem is usually difficult to solve by email.
* The problem is usually easy to solve by going online,
  which for most list subscribers is not possible.

Nevertheless, InternetTrash is the easiest free webspace
provider for email-only users. It is the only one we
know about that actually offers email uploading as part
of the service.

All free webspace providers expect that their users will
sign up and maintain their pages online with a browser.
Most offer some combination of an online editor, FTP and
browser uploading.

If you want to identify an alternative to InternetTrash,
here are some points to consider:
* The signup page must not be protected by cookies.
* There should be an online editor page that is not
  - protected by cookies
  - dependent on particular browser versions
  - dependent on Javascript

The only one we know about at the moment is Angelfire.
(http://www.angelfire.com), and it is not easy to get at.

There is an out-of-date 82Kb tutorial at
  http://www.netjunk.com/users/websitebyemail/afire.htm
which will give you some idea of what else might be
involved. At the very least, you will need
  - some understanding of HTML forms
  - basic GetWeb literacy
  - a lot of time and patience
all of which can be learnt or acquired.

You must also expect (sometimes)
  - form scripts which don't work
  - scripts which do not respond to email submission in
    the same way as online submission (in this respect,
    InternetTrash is typical rather than exceptional)
  - changes to the forms or scripts that are evident
    only to ACCMail users, and are therefore not
    announced

Don't let that put you off! There are now hundreds of
free webspace providers on every continent. Some of them
must be accessible to email-only users. The only way to
find out is to try them. If you have any luck, please
report to this list.

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