Reading your email on the road
Email is certainly the fastest, cheapest, and most convenient way to stay in touch as you travel away from home, and if you have an email account and can get access to the Internet in a library, cyber caf‚, hotel, or bookstore, you can check your email and send messages to others from almost anywhere on the planet. In order to use the same email account that you are used to using when you are at home or at your office, you should check with your service provider before you travel, and learn the methods they offer for using what is known as “web based” email. With this web-based feature, you can connect to the Internet from anywhere, and then go to the home page of the company that provides your Internet service at home. Once you are on the home page, you can follow the procedures - usually by just clicking on a few directional tabs to guide you to the part of the site where email is available - and check your email, the same you would check it from home. Because you are using a webpage of the company that provides your email service, you don’t have to worry about downloading to your own home based computer. And you can still take advantage of organizational features such as file folders for keeping copies of your emails, multiple email address aliases, and spam filters, while using the web based style email features. Some people get so used to using it while traveling that they keep using the home paged based web mail method even when they get home.