On 01/06/2004, at 8:23 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:

I notice some folks have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address - how do I get one?

See your next question   :-)

Is there a way to have a Mac email address without subscribing to .mac.

No.

For instance in my mail box there appears a mac account and my Westnet account.

Well, Apple likes to give you every encouragement  :-)

How do I use the mac account? Or is that a .mac thing?

It's a .mac thing. Is it worth it? I personally find I get value for money with Home Page, the .mac email address, Apple's Backup program (you can't even run it without a .mac account), iDisk and the various software freebies which occur from time to time, but not everyone agrees.

In any case, don't even bother unless you have Broadband.

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