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The top 10 free web based e-mail sites
The best free web based e-mail providers. You can use them to get e-mail when you are at work without having it
sent to your work address, to post to newsgroups and avoid the spam, or just to have a second
account that you can access from the web when you are travelling. Every portal site seems to be
setting up their own free e-mail accounts so be sure to check them out (e.g. netscape, excite, lycos, etc.).
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Graffiti
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This site might just be the best of all. The sign up is very fast, you just give your name, and select
a user name and password. The service offers Mail filters, forwarding, and auto responders. The associated
free website service with CGI privileges probably offers the best
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Portable Office
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Another great service. Portable Office gives you 4MB of e-mail service, its attachments feature
really works, and you also get a personal chat, discussion, on-line calendar and address book, as
well as personal file storage. All in a secure environment. The only downside to this service is
that your e-mail address is not as cool as some of the others. Your address would be myname@portableoffice.com
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Briefcase
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Another service offering free e-mail along with a calendar, address book, on-line bookmarks and on-line file storage.
The best feature of this service is its custom software that allows you to synchronize your personal computer
agenda and address book with entries made on your website. This means both copies will always be up to date.
If you are interested in an on-line agenda, you had better give this site a look.
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Mail and News
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This site offers you 10MB of storage. You get a free e-mail account with forwarding and an
auto-responder, access to newsgroups, and phone access to e-mail. |
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Yahoo Mail
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Formerly Rocket Mail, Yahoo offers a wide range of features. You get 3MB storage, an
on-line address book, spell checking, folders to manage your mail
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Fortune City
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Free e-mail accounts and websites. I haven't tried it. |
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Ghana Mail
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Free e-mail accounts based out of Africa. This site lets anybody who enters an account
name and a password have an account. No questions asked. Sometimes it can't be accessed, but
it could be useful if you want a relatively anonymous account. |
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Angelfire
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3MB of free e-mail storage. This site is not so well known, so you can usually
get your first or second choice for an account name. Includes an autoresponder feature, so
you can notify people when you are on vacation. But the mail attachment feature does not work sometimes.
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Hotmail
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One of the biggest, oldest, and most well known, but it is not among the best. It is slow,
has lots of ads, and you have to fill out a humongous form of demographic information in order to sign-up. Microsoft owns it now
so you can be sure that it will only become more commercial. Not the place for you if you're trying to
stay extremely anonymous. |
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