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I posted this to the list back in May, in response to a similar enquiry.
I think this should help in your search. What was it about aol mail that
was the final straw?
Try these sites - extensive searcheable directories of free email
services,
web-based and POP. Free, non-advert POP mail is becoming very difficult
to
find
http://fepg.net/index.html
http://www.emailaddresses.com/
One I have used is zapmail http://www.zzn.com It offers POP mail but you
have to accept "limited special offers" i.e. spam, which so far has not
been
too much. Fastmail ( http://fastmail.fn ) has a lot of fans and has free
as
well as paid options. I would avoid yahoo and hotmail if you wish to
avoid
spam. I signed up for my one and only hotmail address and within 2
months,
even though I never used it or given it out, had several hundred spam
emails
Other suggestions:
1. Never publish your 'real' email address, as you just have - it is now
spider bait
2. Consider using "disposable" email addresses such as Sneakemail and
SpamMotel, which you use to sign up for individual lists, emailings etc,
and
then discard as they start to attract spam. They are forwarded to your
non-published 'real' email address. You can sign up for individual lists
with different email addresses and actually see if any sell your name
since
any spam will come to that same email address, before being forwarded to
your real address.
3. Use a product such as MailWasher http://www.mailwasher.net which
allows
you to review email on server before it is downloaded - zap spam at the
server, along with viruses etc. Spam is bounced back to the sender so it
appears as if your address has been closed down. This is free software.
4. Use a filtering service such as Despammed http://www.despammed.com -
mail
is filtered before being forwarded to your real email. If spam gets
through
you report it and it is added to their database, making it unlikely to
get
through a second time
5. Get your own domain with free unlimited email addresses - create as
many
addresses or aliases as you want, discarding them as they become
spambait.
This is a relatively cheap alternative these days and one over which you
have total control, you don't have to rely on 3rd party providers going
belly up or changing their plans as yahoo just has
6. Get Web2Mail software - this costs about $20 and allows your POP
server
to collect your webmail. .
I think the key is to use 'layers' with different email addresses, the
final
one being the one to which all your mail is forwarded and which is your
current ISP address. This one can be used for family and close friends.
All
others get a disposable or temporary email address which is discarded as
it
becomes known to the spammers. Sure you may have to re-sign up for omega
list and whatever else you are on from time to time but that takes
seconds,
compared to having to wade through spam every day.
Hope this helps
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: <CCountach@xxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: Off Topic : Email services
>
> AOL has pissed me off for the last time. I would like to use a
web-based
> service
> like Yahoo, but (AFAIK) the mail stays on their servers, and has a
storage
> limitation.
>
> Does anyone know of a service that allows downloading the email, or of
an
> email client that would allow downloading from Yahoo ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Donc
>
>
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