On Fri, 01 Jan 1904 00:30:26 +1200, "John Kirk-Anderson" <jka_at_netaccess.co.nz> said: > I'm off travelling in a couple of weeks and need an email account. I was > going to go with Hotmail, but I recall a discussion on this forum about > other, better, services. Does anyone remember that or have suggestions? > Back channel is probably appropriate. I've grown to loath hotmail and msn, I moved my rant lower so people could skip it. I've got web based email accounts with, in order of preference, fastmail.fm, mail.yahoo.com, arabia.com, and mail.com. I'm using the fastmail based account now. The interface has no graphics, no pop ups, no pop unders, and for a 1 time joining fee no tag line. They've got a 10 meg folder size for the free account. For small amounts of money there are more options, like spam picking up from your old hotmail account. Their servers have only been inaccessible twice since I started using them 6+ months ago. I coughed up some of my own money to upgrade my account there, to get smtp access while travelling. Several other paddlewise/baidarka mailing list subscribers have moved there, I've yet to receive hate mail from them for the suggestion. Mail.com is the most annoying, they have a single pop under for each email item that gets deleted. <rant> I regularly get bounces for subscribers who are based at hotmail and msn there. The bounce comes in with no explanation at all. Just "delivery failed." Hotmail also has a 2 meg total email limit, that's just not a useful limit for getting a mailing list. Please, please, please don't subscribe to paddlewise with a hotmail account. My tolerance for user problems for those with a hotmail account is warn at the first failure then blow away the subscription, it's just not worth the amount of administrator overhead to have hotmail/msn based subscribers. <end rant> Kirk showing my mailing list administrators bias. -- Kirk Olsen kork4_at_cluemail.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 14 2003 - 13:39:26 PDT
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