I won't have time to experiment with this until the weekend, but today I found a way for those of us unable to use HearMe, (and those who can) to use Netscape browser and the CoolTalk plug-in to hear each other. I registered with the comment that says "Mudcat member". If anyone has experience using CoolTalk, I'd like to know what you think of it. As I said, I haven't had time to use it yet, so I don't know the quality. Here are the systems supported:

platforms including Windows 95,
Windows NT,
Windows 3.1,
MacOS,
SunOS,
Solaris,
HP-UX,
Digital Unix,
and IRIX.

Here is the website CoolTalk -click here

Here are the Netscape plugins for CoolTalk
click here for plug in

If anyone on a Mac or any other system would like to try a voice test this weekend, please let me know. Personal message is fine.

Alice