What is the best site to get a FREE email address?

[John Corn]

What is the best site to get a free email address? I am thinking about hotmail? There seem to be soooo many. Do most limit file sizes that can be sent?

[Geronimo]

Well what are your objectives? Relative anonymoty? Storage space? Particular features?

[James_F]

Hotmail is good if you like Span and want only 1 meg per email. But that is a problem with all free emails. I no longer use one, but my wife like Yahoo!, but then you are still limited by 10 megs of total space and 1.5 megs per email.

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[Steve Mehs]

I've always liked Yahoo for their free services, and most of the spam you will get is sent directly to the bulk mail folder. Yahoo by Phone was a great feature when it was for free, but then when they started to charge thats when I left Yahoo for a lot of things, including e-mail, all I use now is my Earthlink account.

[bigrig]

Yeah, all the Hotmail users I know get spammed to death.

I use Excite, it seems pretty good at filtering out spam. And you can set it up to check your pop mail, too.

Matt

[Rusty]

I make a lot of purchases from merchants on-line sites. Most of these ask for an e-mail address. I use a Yahoo free account strictly for that purpose so I don't have to give any merchants my main e-mail address. These on-line retailers do a tremendous amount of address swapping. I usually go to Yahoo once each day and, although I occasionally get a legitimate message, most are spam. Today is a good example. I cleared my Yahoo in box yesterday evening but, whan I checked again about 2PM today I had 111 messages (a new record for me). Every one was spam. I have tried the various methods that Yahoo advocates for getting rid of spam before it shows in my inbox but nothing seems to work. I really don't mind because it takes me only a moment (or 3 today) to delete all messages. I never click on one to read it unless the "from" column is from a company that I am doing business with at the time. Having said all of that, I think that Yahoo is a viable service for those looking for a free web based e-mail account. I also recommend Netscape and Excite.

[Mike123abc]

Nice thing about a free account like yahoo is that you can ditch it when the spam overloads it. Yahoo has done a good job eliminating spam (goes to bulk, might check that you have that turned on).

[Scott Greczkowski]

If you already have an email address, we can give you a FREE DBSTalk.COM address which will forward all your mail to your existing account. :D

Contact Chris Blount for more information.

[Rusty]

Thanks Mike, my Spamguard was turned off (as Roberto DeVicenzo once said, "what a stupid I am").

I should now start seeing a big drop in the number of messages that i receive. As I indicated, I don't consider it a major problem but, obviously, the world is a better place with less spam.