> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 07:44:22 -0500 (EST), Klaus Hameyer wrote:
> > To avoid that problem, I subscribe to a forwarding service
> > (http://www.pobox.com) which for a small fee ($15/yr) allows
> > you to use their address as your e-mail address and forwards
> > the messages to your actual address at the time. On their web
> > site you can change the real address to which mail is forwarded
> > as needed. Good for when you travel too.
Bigfoot (www.bigfoot.com) provides mail forwarding like pobox.com above,
for Free. Bigfoot has been around for quite some time. But, even if you
use a forwarder, you still have the looming problem of your forwarding
provider going out of business or being taken over by a larger conglomerate,
and changing their services or fees.
In this regard, you might as well use a free email provider, in terms of
the risk that your forwarding will not last. I have turned on more than
one friend to Yahoo.com's free email. They certainly are likely to be
here for a while and, unlike most providers, they give you free POP3 and
SMTP mail so you can process mail with a real mail client instead of a
browser.
Howard Schwartz
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