Posted on 06/08/2005 4:26:39 PM PDT by Writer1
Chicago, IL, Jun. 8 (UPI) -- America Online introduced free e-mail for the Web this week, aiming to vie with existing offerings from Microsoft's Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Google's Gmail, but experts told UPI's The Web the free e-mail concept's time already may have passed. Only a small portion of Internet users take advantage of free e-mail accounts, with most preferring to use e-mail provided by commercial services or their own companies.
"Coca-Cola does not do business with a free e-mail account, and neither do most small businesses," said Mike Neumeier, a spokesman for Interland, a Web-hosting company in Atlanta. "Even small businesses want a domain name that identifies who they are." By Gene Koprowski
I am still waiting to get a gmail account. /sigh
GMail is alright, but I'm paranoid about their privacy policies and practices.
I'd love to get a POP3 box, but I'm increasingly distrusting other companies, especially with recent security lapses. Maybe I'll set up my own email server...
I can give you a GMail invite, if you want.
Free email is very useful. My ISP email is for friends, family and employment only. Every other entity gets the @yahoo.com.
send me your email and i will give you an invite
read your mail
They're extremely useful. I use mine to intercept spam and to deflect the malicious. A couple of years ago I got into it with some troll who picked up my real email addy from my FR profile page and signed me up for all sorts of radical newsletters and left-wing spam. Took a couple of months to get free of it all. Since then I've used my Hotmail addy and if that gets bombed I can always dump it and start another.
FRmail me your e-mail address, and I'll send you an invite...
What's so good about it?
Without it, I'd have NO email! I have no computer!
(I Freep from work and the Library.)
I've had the same free email for almost 10 years. I'd have changed ISPs many times since then, also changed addresses and phone numbers over 7 times. I still get emails from people touching base with me after several years, and luckily, it's easy to keep in touch because I still have the same email.
read your mail again
Anyone else out there that wants Gmail, FReepmail me.
I think "fastmail.fm" is really quite good. Two accounts; one public one private. The public one is pretty obvious and easy to bounce spammers from -who rarely return. The private one is a pretty random collection of mishmashed letters-numbers string and since only family members have it, any new entries are high on the priority scale. The public one I only check every once in awhile -and it comes in quite handy when I need to suffer through one of those "you-must-provide-a-valid-email-to-obtain-password-to-continue" annoyances.
WHAT is Gmail???
Google's email service which gives you a gig of storage.
A couple of years ago I got into it with some troll who picked up my real email addy from my FR profile page and signed me up for all sorts of radical newsletters and left-wing spam.
I'm sure this was incredibly annoying at the time and I sympathize with you, but that's hilarious.
AHHH...thanks. I really wonder what "free" REALLY means.
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