TSGL: AOL-question

[Heidi Schröder]

Hi there everybody,

a friend of mine, living in Australia, is using AOL for her ISP and she can 
use her internet without any limitations. No question she could get such for 
cheaper than what she pays now - have told her what great offers even I 
found on the net for her, but she is totally computer illiterate and has to 
depend on her 18 years old daughter even with getting and sending e-mails 
for her. Since the girl now is getting less helpful and hardly ever finds 
time (likes to?) help mum with her "silly hobby" (writing to penfriends all 
over the world via e-mail) our friendship might break as I sure do not want 
to spend lots of money on postage and wait weeks for my letter to get there 
and weeks for her answer to get back here plus the weeks in-between it takes 
her to answer anyway. So now I am wondering if there is a chance anybody on 
the list might be able to explain in easy words how to get online and read 
and answer your mails with AOL so I could post that to her via snail mail 
then, hopefully making it possible for her to go online herself then... 
maybe I am thinking it to be too easy, but I am just hoping it is possible 
as it might be "the same" no matter what version of AOL, or 
computer-programs you have. I know absolutely nothing about their computer 
except that it must be not really up-to-date as it was cheap and is about 3 
years in her house now when it was bought used. As I know from explaining 
things to other computer illiterate friends it is best to use pictures as 
well to show what to do, I would very much appreciate a picture course on 
how to do it off-list then!

Hope you can help as usual
have a nice day
Heidi