I was recently directly to http://www.fastmail.fm/ by some slashdot
thread, which suggested it is good.  If you want to try out a different
domain name, visit http://simpsons.com/ and check out the list of
domains (bounce.org, broken.net, danger.org, dangerous.net, scared.org,
and typo.net stand out to me as fun) that are available....
And see https://www.hushmail.com/ for free *secure* email.

ciao

   Ben B

PS - many of the free accounts use ads to pay for their services, so
like any customer, choose wisely and support those you really wish to,
as there are lots of good choices out there  = )
I'd suggest *not* msn/hotmail, but then again, they do run bsd AFAIK.

PPS - I believe they count you as a 'customer', whether you actually
look at their ads or not, and I'd bet they report usage numbers to
their advertising clients... so I'm guessing money is in their pocket
per use, basically.  Doesn't euglug have a jabber server running?


On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:12:56 -0700
Cory Petkovsek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

| On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:58:34PM -0400, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
| > On another note, I have no problem letting Microsoft supply me with
| > messaging service, especially when it is free to me. I use Hotmail
| > to. Why not. They don't get a dime from me, and they won't either. I
| > just like the portable nature of Hotmail. Same thing with MSN
| > Messenger. As long as they are not charging me for it, and I don't
| > have to look at their ads, I have no problem with it.
| > 
| > Just my random thoughts for the afternoon. 
| 
| Garl, they do get 'dimes' for your using hotmail.  Everytime you send
| email with hotmail you send out MS ads attached to your email.  They
| may also show you ads while on the interface, I don't know.  If there
| are 3rd party ads, they are getting a lot of advertiser views and a
| lot of dimes.  There are many webmail services that provide the same
| portable nature and that do not support MS.  Check out myrealbox.com
| for instance.  They run on novell something or other.
| 
| I don't see how using MSN Messenger would support them if you are
| using a unix client, though.
| 
| Cory
| 
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