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Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Looking for that Easy Alternative to Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail?
There are a lot of different ways to get email. You could spend forever comparing schemes and features and offers.
Basically though, if you're like me, your situation is this: you already own a bunch of domains, and some of them might be useful as "alternative" email addresses. Wouldn't it be good to just get email service by paying for it - without needing to goof around with hosting? Why of course!
Yahoo offers a strange domain-registration-with-email cobrand, and I've used that in conjunction with one of my domains. But you know what? The box was soon getting bulk mail and moreover, Yahoo Mail is just plain full of ads and annoying.
So I tried a different tack: when I registered a domain with registrar NameBargain, I was able to sign up for a web-based email service for $14.95 that offers up to ten email addresses based on my domain (which I would have owned anyway). $14.95 isn't going to break anyone. Most importantly, the service gives me an inbox that is for now spam-free, with a cool name of my choice (no "parabola4851@yahoo.com" nonsense), and a quick login method. Most of all, no ads popping up all over the place a la Yahoo. Sort of how web-based email used to be in the old days.
There must be 100 ways to deal with spam, organize one's email, and get away from ads. I use multiple methods, as there seems to be no one easy solution. Sometimes low-tech works best.
I kind of like this particular approach, though. If you're one of those people who is getting too much electronic attention and whose email just "vants to be alone," head to NameBargain.com or another registrar that offers the service, and check it out. I guarantee you the experience of sending and receiving mails from this interface (you just surf to http://mail.Whatever-URL.xxx and log in with your password) will be like going back in time!
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
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