Comments on: Free Email Comes with a Price - Hotmail, Yahoo Email, Gmail - Worth It?

By: FAHAD

FAHAD — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:48:08 +0000

HI,MY NAME IS FAHAD,SIR PLZ HELP ME TO DESCRIBE THE SOURCE CODE .IN EVERY TIME WHEN I WAS DOWNLOADING ANG NOTES ON THE NETS,IN EVERY NOTES ALL AUTHORS SAYS “COPY THE SOURCE CODE”.SO HELP ME PLZ TO MODIFY THE SOURCE CODE..I WILL VERY THANKS FULL TO U ,IF U HELP ME.

By: CHS

CHS — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:55:04 +0000

Gee, I have been using the same Yahoo address since I had to go to the library to access it. On a bad day I get one offer to buy the house I rent and an offer to review my credit. I can delete the bulk mail with one click and save anything I want in any of several folders. This before I even have to consider if I want to trust the various anti-viral programs I run and down load to disk. I barely remember what a pop-up is and have access to my mail from any chatroom on earth or connected by satellite should I find myself elswhere. Can’t say I have a big worry about customer support, in ten years I have never felt the need. kissy, C

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:37:40 +0000

My IT Instructor gives lectures on this sort of thing at least once or twice a month. The internet is inherently insecure, and will contenue to be unless it was totally overhauled. Which probably isn’t worth the money…. Free e-mail accounts are the same. I pay for a domain for my buisness related e-mail, and keep my free account for posting on blogs, newsgroups, subscribeing to newsletters and anything else where spam might result. What it boils down to is that you need to use a paid account for important stuff, and use a free one for whatever else.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:48:15 +0000

In my own experience, Hotmail has improved its spam filtering, while go.com has become the worst, with 95% or more of incoming being totally obvious and redundant spam, and no easy method to report it. gMail has been spam-free, and Lycos nearly so.
None of this spam problem will go away until IANA and other authorities make the domain registrar /accountable/ for the accuracy of their registration data. Countries such as Korea and mainland China should be totally filtered off the web until they cooperate in stopping the spam deluge originating or relayed from them.

By: Hank Dillenkofer

Hank Dillenkofer — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:35:19 +0000

BillWebb hit the nail right on the head…I have yet to receive any spam on my Gmail account, while my broadband service provider E-mail account is loaded with around 70% spam…So much for paying $50.00 a month and a free spamless account…

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:03:38 +0000

blah blah blah … and yer just NOW FIGGURING THIS OUT !!???

By: Bill Webb

Bill Webb — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:46:25 +0000

Gmail does not send ads with your email. The sender is the only one who sees them, unless the mail is sent to another Gmail account. I have never received a piece of spam from a Gmail address, and their filters as as good as anyone’s. They do not, for practical purposes, limit size of attachments (10+ MB) nor storage (2.6 GB and counting,) and I’m betting their servers will be up and running when this one is history. POP3 and forwarding are available. I get far fewer problems than I did with Earthlink email, both webmail — obnoxious ads — and POP3 — either spam or over-filtering.

As to privacy: if you’re not encrypting your mail, you ain’t got none.

Diffr’nt strokes.

Bill

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:22:33 +0000

Uh, gary, you still need an address - those progs download/upload from an address…

I use free EMail because not only can I get at it [almost] anywhere, but while I am paying for some at my ISP (7, I think) I’ve changed ISP four times in six years… A complaint about them: most have a set-up for getting POP3 from other accounts, but no way of finding out how to get THEIR addresses for retrieving with another handler…

And look around when you go to some sites - they may offer free EMail. A newspaper in South Africa, M&M (not open for new accounts last time I looked), an electronics manufacturer in Japan, etc. They don’t look free to people you mail to.

Lots of spam at YAHOO - but they handle it well by pushing it into a Bulk/Spam folder. I get about 430 in there per day, but only 5 or 6 in my Inbox.

By: garymccurry@gmail.com

garymccurry@gmail.com — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:12:00 +0000

There are plenty free web based email programs that are available and good, example, Fast Mail, or you could download a good free one such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird, if you have pop three.