What's the price of a free email account?
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Seen lurking in Google adwords:
MS Outlook-based Email
Free Outlook & Outlook Web Access Premium business email - £9.99/mth
www.Fasthosts.co.uk
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The price of free email: Having to be phortuitous_phil792@hotmail.com, and being constantly caught in a monsoon of spam.
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@philward said:
Fasthosts? The twats responsible for http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/30/fasthost_hack_update/ ? You couldn't pay me to use them.Seen lurking in Google adwords:
MS Outlook-based Email
Free Outlook & Outlook Web Access Premium business email - £9.99/mth
www.Fasthosts.co.uk(I'm assuming that's the WTF you're trying to point out, not the [free outlook] & [premium for £9.99/mth] which could (at a stretch) be interpreted as [free outlook & premium] for £9.99/mth)
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Also, I believe you have to sign up for the 'enterprise' package or something to get even one MySQL database ... at least that's what the advert said.
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@m0ffx said:
The price of free email: Having to be phortuitous_phil792@hotmail.com, and being constantly caught in a monsoon of spam.
Ahem.... I'm not a google fanboy or anything, but I switched my primary email address over to gmail recently, and I was able to get something more like FirstLast@gmail.com -- and an excellent spam filter. And IMAP, and > 5 gigs storage. It's free, and miles better than the comcast email I'm paying for .
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@shadowman said:
Ahem.... I'm not a google fanboy or anything, but I switched my primary email address over to gmail recently, and I was able to get something more like FirstLast@gmail.com -- and an excellent spam filter. And IMAP, and > 5 gigs storage. It's free, and miles better than the comcast email I'm paying for .
Agreed. The IMAP functionality is great and the spam filter learns quick. I think I've had one or two mails slip past it in the 1+ year that I've had it.. compared to 50+/day being caught correctly.
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@m0ffx said:
The price of free email: Having to be phortuitous_phil792@hotmail.com, and being constantly caught in a monsoon of spam.
I'll say it again: if you have any creativity at all, you can make a unique email address. (And forum username, etc.)