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Old 04 February 2002, 03:05 PM
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Time to ditch the hotmail account, back off a weeks skiing, 300 odd new emails, of which 255 are pure SPAM!

Can anyone recommend a similiar service without the spam? Must be able to read email from any browser inc PDA, and would be nice if it worked with Outlook Express behind a company firewall.

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Old 04 February 2002, 03:46 PM
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You might try Opera, don't know how it would work with express, probably not too well
www.opera.com
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Old 04 February 2002, 03:59 PM
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Isn't opera a browser? I don't have a problem with my browser and I want to be able to read email wherever I got via whatever browser is in the internet cafe/mates house etc

cheers,

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Old 04 February 2002, 03:59 PM
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Had the same problem with Hotmail myself.
Try http://www.www.com




Old 04 February 2002, 05:15 PM
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Email lee@sidc.co.uk & he'll sort you out with a Webmail account

Old 04 February 2002, 05:42 PM
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Which has WAP access as well.
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Ooh! Chris - never tried that yet & now that I've got a GPRS phone
Old 04 February 2002, 06:26 PM
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What about a Scoobynet webmail account? I've got one...

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Old 05 February 2002, 09:49 AM
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Greg

I use Lycos Mail. Very good. No Spam and a handy translation feature.

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Old 05 February 2002, 10:24 AM
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Try talk21.com.

I've used it for years and not had anything I didn't know the source of.

You can view over the web as well as download with Outlook Express.

Old 05 February 2002, 01:44 PM
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Yahoo mail gives you 6Mb instead of the measly 2Mb hotmail gives you, and it is WAP accessible?
Old 06 February 2002, 10:51 AM
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The filters are already high, the only next step is where it only receives email from people in my address book!

Yahoo or Lycos are looking favourites at the moment.

greg
Old 06 February 2002, 03:53 PM
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try www.hushmail.com


like hotmail, but it actually is secure, with built-in pgp!
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Another.com ? Lots of highly amusing email addresses. I've got djdunk@sh1thotmail.com

Also available: yourname@muppet.co.uk !

[Edited by DJ Dunk - 2/5/2002 1:45:13 PM]
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You could just set up the filters on your Hotmail account so that anything that is not specifically addressed to you is automatically deleted.

I did that some time ago and the ammount of junk has gone from about 8 - 10 per day to about 5 per week.

Stuart

[Edited by sasim - 2/5/2002 8:10:28 PM]
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