Free Email Accounts

Most of the people on the planet use the emailBelieve me it is a major hassle tochange an email
accounts thatcome with their internet provideraddress.
service for their personalemail. These are included inI know this, because I recently changed from my
the price of the service, so mostpeople just usePacbell accountto a personal mailbox which I
them because they don't know any better. I'dguesspurchased from everyone.net. Ittook me over two
that outside of such services as AOL, WebTV andmonths to notify everyone of the change, and
the like,virtually everyone just uses an email clientI'm sure I missed a few on the way.
such as OutlookThe free web based email accounts do not have
Express and their ISP's included email accounts.that disadvantage
When I began on the internet, I simply used my AOL(unless, of course, the web based service folds or
account tocollect my email. It was simple (far simplerchanges insome way), but their are good reasons not
than just aboutanything else, actually) because is wasto use them for normalcorrespondence.
included with the AOLpackage. Once you set up AOLFirst of all, my own personal opinion that using
there was no configuration of anykind. You just usedHotmail or oneof the other big, well-known email
the email browser and you were all set.services is just plain, well,tacky. It strikes me like
After I moved to Pacbell, I simply began using theeating imitation crab meat orsomething - it just feels
Pacbell emailaccount that was provided as part of thelow-class. I know other people feelthis way as well -
service. It's simple,after all, and better yet, it doesn'thow seriously do you take something receivedfrom a
cost anything at all.Hotmail address verses a more unique domain name?
Later, like many people, I learned about services suchAnd Idon't mean to pick on Hotmail - all of the big,
asfree, web-basedemail suffers from the same
Hotmail, Yahoo mail and Excite mail. I got veryperceptions.
excited, becausethese services solved severalThis makes a well known, web-based email account
problems for me.very unsuitablefor any kind of real business. People
First and most importantly, by using my Hotmailare so used to getting spamfrom these places that
account I couldreceive and send email fromthey will often delete the message unreadunless they
everywhere that had web access. Whilein theory Iabsolutely know who the source of the message is.
could do the same with my Pacbell account, it wasExcluding things like FFA submissions, these email
ahassle. Hotmail neatly solved that problem. True, theaccountsshould never be used for legitimate business
webinterface was no where near as nice as thatpurposes.
provided by OutlookAnother major disadvantage is that you are at the
Express, but it was usable and convenient.mercy of thebig company hosting the email. They
On top of that, as I began promoting my own webwant to make money,naturally, and they must do
sites, I foundthat there are good reasons not to usesomething in exchange for givingyou free email. Most
your own private emailaccount. I learned the hardof the services simply post advertisements,although
way, of course, by submitting mysite to one ofsome also require you to view popup ads or
those FFA services and using my own personalreceiveoccasional spam emails. (I refer to these as
emailaccount address. I must have received 10,000spam emails becausethey are undesired by virtually
emails in a periodof a couple of hours! All junk (theeveryone and usually people treatthem like spam -
reason FFA lists exist is inexchange for a link the listthey just have to be received to get the
owner gets to send you one or morepromotionalfreeservice).
email messages) and most even downright silly.Personally, there are no conditions that I would use
Yearslater I was still getting an occasional emailHotmail inthe future due to their requirement that
message as a resultof that one mistake.you sign up for apassport account. There are many
The next time I submitted to an FFA list (before Isecurity concerns with using
learned howsilly these things are) I got a little smarterMicrosoft Passport (not the least of which is that
and opened aMicrosoft'strack record is abysmal as regards security
Hotmail account. All of the email messages wereand privacy) andadditionally a real trepidation at giving
directed to thatmailbox, which I deleted a few daysa large corporationsuch control over my information.
later. This saved me fromgetting tons of spam andSo what would I recommend? There are many email
wading through an incredible number ofabsolutelyservicesavailable at a very reasonable price which
useless junk.give you everythingyou could possibly want. Probably
The final problem was anonymity. There are times onthe best and most reasonablypriced service I have
the internetwhen not giving out one's personal emailfound is from everyone.net. You get 10email
address is a good idea.accounts (whose names are completely under your
I found the email boxes at were perfect forcontrol)for about $40 a year (100mb of storage) -
thispurpose. It requires only a few minutes to createand this even includesyour own domain name! The
a mailbox whichis more-or-less untraceable. While Iservice provides both POP and web-basedemail, and
have not had any real usefor this kind of anonymity,has an array of features which make it very useful.
I mention it because it is one majorreason someAdditionally, since you are directly paying for the
people use free email accounts.service (andwhat better relationship is there in
Ah, but there are some disadvantages to using freebusiness than the "customerdirectly pays vendor who
emailaccounts. First off, the ISP based email account'sprovides service" business model), youdon't have to
majordisadvantage is simply that it is linked to yourview banners, you don't get popup ads and you
ISP. If youmove or change ISP's, then you have todon'tneed to receive spam emails.
change your email address.And believe me, that's the best reason of all to use a
This means changing every newsletter that youservicesuch as everyone.net's paid email accounts -
receive, everyproduct update, notifying every friendno stupidadvertisements which I don't want, don't
and other person who sendsyou email, and so forth.need and will never havea use for.