Free Email

• NetAddress This is a free email server run by USA Today, I think. It asks few questions and does not require confirmation of your street address and such, and for some reason does not send you junk mail like Juno, for instance. I have gotten an address on this server, and I quite enjoy it; they also offer free mail filtering, which is great as now I can use it as a filter to prevent me receiving any junk mail. You can send mail to me here: quasit@usa.net
• Juno Windows-based, Juno provides a long user licence agreement and a longer survey that you fill out about yourself. It requires 10 megabytes of free disk space to install. The advantage of this system is that you are not online the whole time you are checking your mail. The disadvantage is that (as of 1997) you could not connect through the net with a web browser, but perhaps this will change in the near future.
• HotMail According to what I've seen, this is a web-based email service. quasit@hotmail.com
• RocketMail Another one, very similar.
• MailExcite , which seems to be something sponsored by Yahoo. My address here is quickbeam@mailexcite.com (I don't check this anymore.)
• GoPlay (free?) Email service
• AltaVista's mail. There is a link to it from the main search page (I do not seem to have it bookmarked anywhere) quickbeam@altavista.net
• Netforward . Not really an email service, this provides forwarding which allows you to get a configurable address which you can set to point to your real address. Of course, as useful as this is, it doesn't allow you to send or receive mail until you already have an account. steel@cryogen.com
• Capaccess . This is where I usually check my mail (as it is local, and I can call them up). Unfortunately, it is free no longer; they are trying to charge me 25$us(!!) a year for their services.

So far, I have encountered several different free email servers, and have tried more than half of them. As you have not already seen, I had a Juno ( cwmj@juno.com) email address -- but my computer was abruptly terminated, which is preventing me from personally checking it. I started out with a Freemark account (ROLF@Freemark.com) but the company went bankrupt before I really got started. I found the link to HotMail while I was browsing the Anonymous Remailer pages below, and the Juno address mentioned in passing in a magazine review. If you have seen others that are up, please email me with the names and addresses. Thanks.

Please forgive me for not keeping this page up-to-date. It must have slipped through the cracks when I was setting up everything. I wrote this paragraph and edited the links on this page on 8.10.1998.

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