[pct-l] Re: pocket mail

[dude@coruscant.net (dude@coruscant.net)]

I have a buddy who rode his bike from Galveston, Texas to Denali and 
posted email messages _every day_ with pocket mail.  I agree with 
Brick, web-based at trail access points seems unlikely.

I would suggest a Blackberry also, but mine didn't work between Mt. 
Shasta and the Oregon border.  Probably would not work in other 
places too.

> 
> At 01:16 PM 4/11/02, you wrote:
> >Yes,I have heard of pocketmail,  but have YOU not
> >heard most people do not have pocketmail. ;-)
> 
> The thru hikers who use email, use pocket mail. I know several who 
started 
> with Palms, but got TM20s and sent the Palms home.... The acoustic 
couplers 
> on the TM20 and the PM-33 makes them work on almost any phone. You 
need a 
> jack to use a Palm...
> 
> >Most people who have e-mail that are traveling, will
> >be using a web-based e-mail account.
> 
> Traveling, yes, thru hiking no. Simply not that many on-trail 
access 
> points. I admit I am not infallible....So, are there any thru 
hikers on the 
> list who were able to keep in touch with web based email?
> 
> >Hence why I said
> >a web based hookup. There are also sattelite phones,
> >e-mail cell phones, and other kinds of techno goodies.
> >that we can all mention but we don't. To mention one
> >semi-obscure device to prove a point, well -shrug-,
> >does not seem to help your point.
> 
> Cell phones have inadequate coverage for most the trail. Sat-phones 
are out 
> of reach $$$ for most hikers except Tom Reynolds. (this topic has 
been 
> beaten to death on the list...)
> 
> Calling Pocketmail "semi obscure" on this list, well -shrug-, 
doesn't help 
> YOUR  point. There have been several posts like this one concerning 
> pocketmail. http://www.backcountry.net/arch/pct/0111/msg00262.html
> 
> FWIW, the Sharp TM20 seems to have been discontinued. A replacement 
is the 
> PM-33 Composer sold on the pocket mail site.....
> 
> More info
> http://www.pocketmail.com/
> http://www.pdastreet.com/boards/PocketMail/
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Brick Robbins
> 
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> -----Robert Heinlein - Glory Road
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