[Ferrotoral]

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I\'ve had that hotmail address for 10 years, btw, so just think how many places would have it by now. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Really? Wow.. There weren\'t much people online back in 1993.. In those days, the internet was something special. Nowadays, every Joe Blow is on the web. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[opelayday]

I have yahoo and hotmail. The yahoo is for friends. The hotmail has become my junk mail addy. I\'ve taken myself out of the directory FOUR TIMES, and I still find myself there every once in a while. It\'s nothing for me to get 50-100 junk mails a day, and that\'s not in my junk mail folder! It\'s ridiculous! If I didn\'t use it for my default addy when posting to sites that need an email address (amazon, here, etc), I would get rid of it. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[opelayday]

Why do I use hotmail and yahoo?

1. I move around too much and have friends in too many far-flung places to have to worry about changing my email addy all the time. Yahoo and Hotmail can stay pretty consistent.

2. I like Yahoo. Only 2-3 spams there, ever. *knock on wood*

3. I like the virus check on yahoo and hotmail, because it\'s an internet server, and they\'ll be downloading the virus to themselves rather than ME.

[LClan439]

I refuse to rely on \"online\" email accounts- you know, the ones that force you to either check your email through their site via your browser or charge you to upgrade so you can use use your own program (pop/imap), and then they spam the hell out of you. After I graduated from college and had to find a permanent email address I did some research (I know- shock) and found this one...

http://www.fastmail.fm/

It\'s what I use now and I never have any problems. I don\'t get spam, I have plenty of storage and bandwidth, I can check my email via my own program (imap) or through my browser, and it\'s completely free. They put a tiny little advertisement tag at the bottom of your emails (outgoing I think) but it\'s really small and I never notice it when I forward things to myself. You can also check your pop email (like hotmail) through it and there are all sorts of domains you can choose from (like @elitemail.org, @mail-central.com, @speedymail.org, @sent.com, etc). Anyway, check it out if you\'re looking for a more dependable, less irritating email provider (I sound like a commercial. I swear I\'m not associated with this company! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]).

[cabonuserollyo]

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The second point was that free email accounts are anonymous. :-)

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Isn\'t that the same point?

[tramdoctorsss]

I agree, Franki, Yahoo mail is pretty good for the price - free. I\'ve had two accounts for years. The spam guard works well-enough too.

[Ferrotoral]

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The second point was that free email accounts are anonymous. :-)

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Isn\'t that the same point?

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Don\'t know, maybe I misunderstood your post? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[itititit]

\"I remember sitting in a college computer lab in \'93 and being astounded at the internet--first time I\'d ever seen it.\"

So did anyone ever Gopher??
I think there might even still be a few Gopher sites around.

[Ferrotoral]

The second point was that free email accounts are anonymous. :-)

[ChebuRAtoR]

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CJ-

It\'s OK! You aren\'t the only one!

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Yeah, I know [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
CJ

[Ferrotoral]

I think many use Hotmail or Yahoo, just because they don\'t want everyone to have their \"real\" email addy and track them down. :-)

[cabonuserollyo]

Don\'t your service providers offer pop 3 e-mail as part of the service? I thought most did. If they do, you can use Outlook as your e-mail client and it has great filters. The beta version of Outlook 2003 has even better filters and a great rules wizard. Spammers don\'t have a chance. I\'ve recieved maybe four junk mails since setting it up. The rest are auto deleted before I ever see them.

[cabonuserollyo]

We\'re probably misunderstanding each other. No problem as it doesn\'t really matter. The only thing I use my Yahoo account for is as a test bed when working on a client\'s computer/network. It gives me an easy way to test their mail application without a bunch of configuration changes. For my own use, the freebees are a little primitive, they don\'t have all the whistles and bells that keep me from looking like a complete illiterate. I need all the help I can get with spelling and grammer.

[Ferrotoral]

I also use a free Yahoo email account and they far better than Hotmail. I like them mainly because of their effective Spam Guard.

[dittygari]

I\'ve used both in the past and didn\'t care for either very much. I used to use a local ISP, but since I got MSN ME w/ my current puter, I had no choice but to use their ISP. MSN kept bumping me off-line and tried to force me to use MSN\'s ISP, instead. Now that MSN provides me w/ a local dial-up, I use MSN 8, just to make life easier. Is Bill Gates satan or what? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

SRH-

I have had to set up my own spam magnet, as well. Usually don\'t get quite as many as 100 junk mails a day. MSN has ubdated their junk filters, so at least I don\'t end up w/ all of this spam in my inbox. But it does take forever to clear my junk folder...wish they had an \"empty trash\" option for the junk folder, as well. Whaddayagonnado? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[russianstallian]

lol, I do get spam, but in a very tiny amount. It isn\'t hotmail that spams you, it\'s when you give out your email address to so many places that you lose track, is when the spam starts. My email is in my profile.

- Krish

[opelayday]

I realize it\'s not hotmail that spams you. But a lot of companies that send out spam check the directories for email addresses, and the fact that hotmail keeps putting me back on it when I marked that I didn\'t want to be in it is what annoys me.
I give my email address out to very few places, believe it or not. But a lot of places sell email addresses, then you probably get put on a list like you do with junk mail. I\'ve had that hotmail address for 10 years, btw, so just think how many places would have it by now. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[ChebuRAtoR]

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I remember I was 13 when I first looked at porn, so it must have been 1995 when \"we\" first got it..

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I was younger [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] CJ

[Ferrotoral]

I remember I was 13 when I first looked at porn, so it must have been 1995 when \"we\" first got it.. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[dittygari]

CJ-

It\'s OK! You aren\'t the only one! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]