On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:34:13 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:52:45 +0000, arachne4dos ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ><snip> > >> www.ecosse.net works like hotmail and takes arachne no problems. >>It's >> also a rather small site, so you might be able to get > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> just as I managed to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is rather a nice >> address (weel I think it is anyway!GRIN!) > >Does www.ecosse.net also work with an email client program? >Does it work only for web-based access? > >One of the many disadvantages of the hotmail site is that it >works only for web-based access. You can't access your >hotmail with an email client program. The hotmail site won't >work at all unless you have a special browser especially >approved or condoned by MicroSoft. > >The free web-based mail services offered by >http://www.operamail.com and http://www.subdimension.com both >work with Arachne, but you might need a Windows browser to >complete the initial sign-up process. Another advantage of these >sites is that they will both work also with an email client >program, even with a DOS-based client program. > >I do not understand why hotmail is such a popular free >web-based email site. There are many other free web-based >email sites which are so very obviously far superior to the >hotmail site. When I tell hotmail users about the superiority >of alternative web-based email sites they won't take my advice >and switch to a better service. > >Sam Heywood >-- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - >http://arachne.cz/ > >
Hi Sam, yes, you can do "normal" pop3 and smtp or webmail, plus you can get up to 50Mb free webspace http://sites.ecosse.net/xyzabc type of address I believe. Useful for sort of Community based projects. Regards Mel PS It's nominally Scottish, well it would be with ecosse.net in the handle, but I think it's based in someplace like Israel - -or Outer Betelgeuse - - or someplace?.