Yahoo! charges for E-mail services.

[Sir Gatts]

Yahoo! charges for E-mail services. (http://www.theregus.com/content/23/24400.html)

On Yahoo!'s http/web client, they only plan on charging for email forwarding to another web-based email account. You should be able to recieve and send email at no cost under Yahoo!'s web based client, http://mail.yahoo.com/, but if you use an email program such as Outlook or Eudora to access your email, they plan to add service charges to you for you to continue to read your email,.. I'm still not sure if you will be able to sent email as well on your email programs (SMTP access). Even though you may be using an email program right now to send/recieve email, after April 24, you still should be able to access Yahoo!'s http/web client at http://mail.yahoo.com/ from what I've read.

I always use Outlook to send/recieve email. Because of the above, I decided to change my email address listed on the Toon Zone forums to a more reliable account. I'm just too lazy to go through the http/web client access method to read/wright email anymore.

[Failure]

Yeah this pretty much sucks. I remember they did a survey asking about this a few months ago. I'm not sure if I'm going to pay or not. I said I wouldn't pay under any circumstances in the survey, but now that reality has changed... I'm thinking about it.

[Naraht]

I'm not gonna pay...I have a few Yahoo Accounts (partly due to the Yahoo takeover of Rocketmail awhile back) and it would be WAY to expensive for me.

$20 a month an account...for SPAM....forget that.

[Failure]

Originally posted by naraht
$20 a month an account...for SPAM....forget that.

$20 a year. $20 a month would be ridiculous. Actually, $20 a year sucks too.

[Bird Boy]

yeah, I'm gonna have to find some other people who'll allow forwarding...as I have a POP3 account (Joseph@thejawa.com) which my yahoo accounts forward to (DeadMaulWalking@yahoo.com being one that's forwarded there.. )...so I'm mighty ticked about this..I'll figure it out, gosh-darnit.. :D

-BB

[Web Head]

As far as I know Hotmail is still free. You might wanna sign up if you're ditching your Yahoo account.

[Pilmedium]

At least I don't have a yahoo account, so this isn't news to me.
Well, anyway, useless un-requested emails still come.

[Ricochet]

Scared me with the thread title! :eek: I check my mail at Yahoo mail page.

[Sir Gatts]

Originally posted by Web Head
As far as I know Hotmail is still free. You might wanna sign up if you're ditching your Yahoo account. I ditched Hotmail a long time ago as my primary account just because of the spam. Even with the spam filters set to the second highest level, I still get 40+ spam ads daily. The loss of Yahoo! really isn't a problem for me though since I now use my ISP's email service accounts.

[Elven Moon]

Originally posted by Sir Gatts
I ditched Hotmail a long time ago as my primary account just because of the spam. Even with the spam filters set to the second highest level, I still get 40+ spam ads daily. The loss of Yahoo! really isn't a problem for me though since I now use my ISP's email service accounts.

Funny thing is, I have about 3 or 4 accounts on hotmail, and only one of them is a real pain to sort through with all the spam I get. The others are fine. Maybe it's a random thing?

[redDragon]

Originally posted by Sir Gatts
I ditched Hotmail a long time ago as my primary account just because of the spam. Even with the spam filters set to the second highest level, I still get 40+ spam ads daily. The loss of Yahoo! really isn't a problem for me though since I now use my ISP's email service accounts.

I use hotmail as my primary account and I don't get spam at all....perhaps you got spam because of some of the things you signed up for, and hotmail could just be stupid like some email services and only pretend to have spam filters.

[Naraht]

Hotmail's spamblockers are a joke...

it's block domains works...if you're exact...and you can only block 250.....which isn't much I've learned...


Yahoo will still be free, assuming you don't want to use an actual E-Mail program..

Mean's I'm gonna be constantly logging on one account, checking mail, logging out, loggining in under a new name,...etc..

*sigh*

[Jimmy Kustes]

I think mail2web is free.

[Jedi Knight]

I think the best web-based e-mail places are www.mail.com (http://www.mail.com/) and canada.com (http://mail.canada.com/) (Though I guess the latter is more geared towards Canadians)

I never really liked Hotmail or Yahoo. Too much spam, and not enough storage space.

[pencilsharp]

Confession time: Yes, I have been a Hotmailite for around 6 years now, and there are certain things you have GOT to do to use it properly.

Firstly, I currently have three email accounts. My ISP's, which I use only for vitally important email; my main hotmail account, which I give out verrrrry carefully; and my 'throwaway' account, pencilsharp@hotmail.com, which I just throw out whenever some total stranger or putz-in-passing asks for.

Second, set your 'throwaway' junk mail filters to 'stun' ...er... 'high', just in case some mail or list that you actually want turns up in it. For your main account, set up your JMF for 'exclusive' and its deletion rate to 'immediate.' This will keep your main address clean, and the 'throwaway' will take most of the hits.

Third, stop signing up for mailing lists that you don't just gotta have. A good 80% of them will happily sell you to any schmuck and his Viagra factory. The other 20% will only sell you to 'select' schmucks with Viagra factories.

Fourth, if some site wants your email address just so you can register to use it, use your throwaway account. That's where the rest of your spam will come from.

Finally, let you JMF fill up for a while before you start blocking people. Chance are, if you have more than one junk email from a particular domain (such as schmuck-908347-1@viagrafactory.com and putz-34683682-8@viagrafactory.com) if you try to block one, Hotmail will give you the opportunity to block ALL emails from that domain. This will keep you from hitting that 250 address ceiling. Besides, blocking the individual address means nothing, since most of them are even more 'throwaway' than mine because they use it only once, since it costs them next to nothing to set up a new account at their domain.

This may seem like a lot of work, but I will say one thing:

At least it ain't YahooMail! :D