FW: Re: Hit : Tech (sort of) free e-mail accounts.

["portland@connix.com" <portland@connix.com>]

I am forwarding this post as an addendum to my original hit about free e-mail 
services.

Susan

Susan Burstein
Portland Middle School
Portland, CT 06480

Original Message:

Susan, great post.  I don't believe that any service is any worse
than any other; hotmail and yahoo seem to have collected more spam
complaints here than others, but that is because they are newer, and
people were able to pick short, easy, names, which are among the
automatically guessed ones; my short one with all letters collects spam, while the 
one with a combination of letters and =
numbers
(for example) would not.

That said, I would like for you to forward this to the author of the
following as there is a misunderstanding about hotmail (I am not pro-
Microsoft); it is quite easy to send plain text messages.  Now with
AOL6 ... not so easy.

> Netscape
> [at lm_net]we've dropped the objection to the taglines that the free
> services add to emails,  however, Hotmail seems to only send in html,
> and that  comes though the listserver  almost as gibberish. AOL is
> only a little  bit better. If you have a way to get to the internet,
> Netscape v6.1 may  be your best bet. There is a setting in the new
> Netscape mail that lets you specify which addresses should only get
> mail in plain text format. (which is how lm_net works best)




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