posted on July 1, 2001 06:37:31 AM new
This was on the sign in page on www.netaddress.com, a free e-mail site. How many other free e-mail sites will follow this trend of charging for e-mail services? If you subscribe before the July 31, 2001 cut off date, it's $29.97 for the first year and that it's 60% off. I cannot find anywhere that says how much the normal rate would be.
"Important Announcement!!! Please Read!!!
In today's changing business environment, revenue sources are no longer adequate to support our Net@ddress free email service. The current Net@ddress free email service will be discontinued on July 31, 2001. To keep your current Net@ddress email account, subscribe for a new Net@ddress Messaging Center account today.
Control Your Email!
Protection from Viruses!
No Advertising or Junk Mail!
Larger Storage Capacity!
Customer Support! "
posted on July 1, 2001 07:07:14 AM new
Try Yahoo email. It's FREE, offers 6MB of storage, has free virus scanning software built-in to scan attachments, is accessible from anywhere in the world, can import from external mail sources, is as secure as anyone else's email service, etc.! You can open as many free email accounts under separate IDs as you want with Yahoo and it's easy (takes about 2 minutes). I've opened 5 already that I've been using for a couple years. Will need another 5 with all of these new auction/sales venues opening up in order to segment email communications. When opening a Yahoo account it also gives you the added benefit of setting up a FREE Yahoo PayDirect account to send and receive electronic payments. This gives you the added BENEFIT of wiping the ONEROUS BillPoint and PayPal payment services clear out of your life! However, PayPal is the only one that offers some Chargeback protection (Paydirect and BillPoint do not) --- note PayPal is playing this advantage up as they've seen we on the boards have noted this advantage on many occasions (no question they're reading and taking note). They're now starting to leadoff with that sales pitch.
Don't pay anyone a red cent until there's clearly no other alternatives! There's too many things still free on the Web to take advantage of.
posted on July 1, 2001 07:10:31 AM new
Actually $29.00 a year is a very nice price most ISPs charge $10.00 per mail box monthly or $120 per year and up for 3 to 5 meg of space.
So if this email service is one you really like Jump right one it for $29 a year....
posted on July 1, 2001 07:47:18 AM new
I found this yesterday after the notice that usa.net is going to charge. I might have paid for the service but they've been extremely slow lately.
Another.com has some great email addresses. Just type in a letter then .com in the search to find just .com addresses.
You can have up to 10 email addresses going to one inbox.
I've opened 5 already that I've been using for a couple years. Will need another 5 with all of these new auction/sales venues opening up in order to segment email communications. When opening a Yahoo account it also gives you the added benefit of setting up a FREE Yahoo PayDirect account to send and receive electronic payments. This gives you the added BENEFIT of wiping the ONEROUS BillPoint and PayPal payment services clear out of your life! 