Safe, high quality, affordable, computer-based, educational toys, combining traditional values with good writing, design, and performance
Pigeon Post
Email your
* Text
* Picture
* Sound!
Downloadable £10
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For Pigeon Post, you need a monitor with a screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher, an email address and standard emailing facilities, including access to a POP3 and SMTP server. Pigeon Post recognises pigeon posts and other sorts of email on the POP3 server and downloads them to your
computer. An SMTP server delivers the pigeon posts you send.
Anything that Pigeon Post does not read - like attachments other than Pigeon Post pictures and sounds - it saves to a special folder.
Pigeon Post itself uses 6 megabytes. It is made with Java. If you are in Windows and you do not have Java 1.4 or 1.5 installed on your computer, you don't have to pay anything more, but the total size of what you have to download
is then 28 megabytes.
Pigeon Post can only be bought from an account with the necessary space in the POP 3 server. But it can be used from any sort of account.
Pigeon Post connects automatically to the Internet. If you have made settings on your computer which do not allow this, you can install and activate Pigeon Post. But to use Pigeon Post, you have to turn these settings off.
In this launch version, Pigeon Post runs for one year after the date of purchase.
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Windows is a trademark or registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States of America and other countries.
Java is a trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States of America and other countries.
Staying safe and useful links
You know how to keep your family safe. No two families do this in quite the same way.
The account-structure in Pigeon Post lets you keep your family safe in your own way.
Pigeon Post has an installation process. If Pigeon Post is for use by a child you
may choose to talk through the installation with them.
There are three basic ideas about on-line safety:
The filtering of words, content, and so on,
Lists of do's and don't's for children and adults,
Teaching the exercise of educated judgement.
These ideas can, to a degree, be mixed and matched. What works for one family doesn't work for every family.
Two things make the Internet different from the off-line world. Technology and software are developing fast.
The wicked are constantly finding new ways of using both. Educators and legislators find it difficult to keep up with the wicked.
And by its very nature, the Internet gives the wicked plenty of room to hide.
But safety on the Internet is like safety anywhere else. Children and young people always benefit by learning more about how to
take responsible decisions in situations which have not been exactly foreseen.
