Free e-mail

Miles Teg · Post by **Miles Teg** » 2003-08-08 10:19pm

Does anyone here know of a good free, or reletively cheap (<$50/year) email service that is stable and does not sell addresses to boatloads of spammers? I recently graduated and will be loosing my school provided email (which was a wonderful thing.. free, the school didn't sell address, accessable from anywhere, etc.)

Thanks,
Miles Teg

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-08 10:29pm

get a yahoo E-mail account you can fix it so every spam go directly in the spam box and flush them all,thats what i`m doing.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-08 10:37pm

AFAIK, none of the major free e-mail providers sell addresses. It'd be counterproductive considering the expenses it'd incur on the provider. Today, most services harvest using robots and do dictionary attacks.

One method is to use SpamGourment disposable e-mail addresses if you need to register for something. You can tell it how many times that address is active for, after which it deactivates itself. Other methods are to use spam filtering techniques (like Bayesian) with your e-mail client and disabling HTML mail and images when browsing.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-08-08 10:52pm

Miles Teg wrote:Does anyone here know of a good free, or reletively cheap (<$50/year) email service that is stable and does not sell addresses to boatloads of spammers? I recently graduated and will be loosing my school provided email (which was a wonderful thing.. free, the school didn't sell address, accessable from anywhere, etc.)

Thanks,
Miles Teg

Um for $50 a year you can buy your own whole domain for a year, with 150 mb total space and up to 150 email accounts, with auto-responders and auto-forwarders. And 150 subdomains.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-08-08 11:01pm

Hotmail is pretty good.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-08-08 11:47pm

Slartibartfast wrote:
Miles Teg wrote:Does anyone here know of a good free, or reletively cheap (<$50/year) email service that is stable and does not sell addresses to boatloads of spammers? I recently graduated and will be loosing my school provided email (which was a wonderful thing.. free, the school didn't sell address, accessable from anywhere, etc.)

Thanks,
Miles Teg
Um for $50 a year you can buy your own whole domain for a year, with 150 mb total space and up to 150 email accounts, with auto-responders and auto-forwarders. And 150 subdomains.

Damn straight. Some cable providers offer free email and space for a personal site if you sign up with them.

SHODAN · Post by **SHODAN** » 2003-08-09 03:29am

YT300000 wrote:Hotmail is pretty good.

I altercate.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-08-09 05:07am

SHODAN wrote:
YT300000 wrote:Hotmail is pretty good.
I altercate.

A few days ago, I managed to beat my previous record for 'Maximum number of Penis Enlargement E-Mails received'.

SHODAN · Post by **SHODAN** » 2003-08-09 06:14am

3rd Impact wrote:A few days ago, I managed to beat my previous record for 'Maximum number of Penis Enlargement E-Mails received'.

I get only pr0n site advertisements. Or that is what I think they are. At least using hotmail for certain tasks keeps my other addresses spamfree.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-08-09 07:18am

I use hotmail, and I rarely get spam, the worst I've ever had was with AOL.

lux · Post by **lux** » 2003-08-09 01:57pm

3rd Impact wrote:
SHODAN wrote:
YT300000 wrote:Hotmail is pretty good.
I altercate.
A few days ago, I managed to beat my previous record for 'Maximum number of Penis Enlargement E-Mails received'.

Me too..

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-08-09 05:13pm

Not a single bit of spam for me.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-09 05:16pm

YT300000 wrote:Not a single bit of spam for me.

Just give your E-mail adress to anything that pop-up on you PC,you`ll get some real fast.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-08-09 07:12pm

Accidently posted using real email on ASVS couple years ago, still getting spam to this day.I don't trust yahoo's spam filter since it blocked some legitimate mail.

I use fetchyahoo (linux perl script), which downloads my mail (inbox and bulk) into an mbox file which my mail client (kmail) pipes through bogofilter (really good bayesian spam filter, never had a false positive, only a few false negatives), which then dumps it in my spam folder. Unfortunately, the ratio of legitamite mail to spam is like 1:30

.

kmail does have a feature to fake messages as undeliverable, but that will probably only invite more spam.

I've archived 417 spams, in case anyone needs some to train their Bayesian mail filters. PM me if you need it.

ironically, the debian archive has a package for bulk mailing called bulkmail...

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2003-08-10 01:39am

Netscape is free, if you don't mind going through AOL. Oddly enough, that is the account I use for all online forms and such, yet it gets no spam. My real email account gets tons of it, and I have never given it to anybody except a couple of friends and family.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-08-10 07:09am

I have two hotmail accounts. One is the "spam account" which I use to sign up for different services, post in Google Groups, and other such crap. It gets tons of spam. The other account I only give to my friends and acquaintances, and it rarely gets any spam.

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