an on line server such as u201c www mypalm com u201d or other alternatively if personal information is not stored then an additional interactive operation can be carried out similar to those disclosed below in any case this operation returns the user 39 s name login information such as password and other registration information necessary for the specified site here ebay the pager will request ebay for a list of its current status at 220 the service sends an e mail to the ebay site asking for stored information note that this step is done totally independent of the thin client the service itself is interacting with the website and receiving information that will be later reformatted in order to send to the thin client the existing list of current status is received from ebay and parsed into its different parts for example the favorites list the items previously bid on list and the watch list may all be included if the user under the u201c content u201d item has specified more detail about what they want then this may narrow down what is actually retrieved in which case possibly less than all of this information may be accessed other commands of this.