> 
> If I setup a Linux server on my Dialup, how do I serf and check my mail?
> 
> Do I need to setup a proxy?

You can either set up a proxy, or you can have your server do
NAT/forwarding.  I use the latter, and it works great.  Of course,
I don't do network games or streaming stuff either...

Rather than spend the next 1/2 hour re-writing what I've already
posted on an internal web site (which nobody in plug can see, sorry), 
I'll promise to put, sometime before Christmas, the info on how to set 
up NAT/forwarding on my web pages at 

	http://www.inficad.com/~rustyc/Linux_NAT_forwarding.html

(if that fails, try just http://www.inficad.com/~rustyc and
look for the link).

Rusty