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    My girlfriend is about to go to Europe for a month and needs a way to keep in touch that doesn't cost 60p+ a minute.

    She's asked me to find her a decent web mail account, as most of the hostels she'll be in will have free web access.

    Can anyone recommend a good (ie low spam) free web mail account?

    Would we just be best with a hotmail account with the maximum security settings and an address book with only those people she will want to talk to in?

    Suggestions?

    Uberlad
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    8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
    5 out of 10 referred to me by name.

  • #2
    I believe that hotmail has a secret inbuilt function that makes the SPAM scale with your real mail, so that the ratio will be about the same no matter how many mail you get; in favor of the SPAM of course.

    I once opened a hotmail account and didn't telly anyone about the address nor did i use the mail anywhere. Sure enough the next day i got some penis enlargement and musclegainer SPAM in my inbox.
    no matrox, no matroxusers.

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    • #3
      They're devils, those spammers.

      Although how much spam can she get in a month? Silly question I know
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      8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
      5 out of 10 referred to me by name.

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      • #4
        it's worth checking that your isp doesn't offer webmail for your normal email address - mine does, and even across the other side of the world it was far far quicker than hotmail (I use FreeUK - dialup then but same applies for its broadband service...)

        Otherwise, just go for the hotmail address and "retire" it at the end of the month... and just delete without reading any spam that gets in there (shouldn't be too much at the beginning).

        Gnep
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        • #5
          Why didn't I think of that?

          Just had a look at tesco.net, and they do webmail so problem solved.

          Yay

          Uberlad
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          8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
          5 out of 10 referred to me by name.

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          • #6
            I have two web mail accounts. One @ hotmail which I get 150+ spam emails a DAY and the other @ Bolt (www.bolt.com) which I get ONE spam a WEEK (and that's only because I gave my email address away to some obscure site).

            I heard that Bigfoot is pretty good too, low spam and what not.
            Last edited by ZokesPro; 26 February 2003, 09:26.
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            • #7
              Yup - use the tesco one - just remember when you connect not to download all the emails from her account on the server!
              DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.net

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              • #8
                And for future reference, Yahoo has good free e-mail, and they filter their spam well. I've gotten about 3 spam mails total in the last 6 months.
                Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                • #9
                  I tend to use talk21 and haven't had any spam.
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                  • #10
                    I have a "backup" Yahoo mail account for various reasons, and the only spam I've ever gotten was Yahoo related, and only once or twice. I'd say just go with Yahoo.

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                    • #11
                      By the way talk21.com email has hardly been down all the time I've been using it. I think about twice in three or four years.
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                      • #12
                        Nice to know that MS has a monopoly on spam.
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                        8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
                        5 out of 10 referred to me by name.

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                        • #13
                          Well it's been my personal experience that my Hotmail account gets no spam that is not MicroSoft related...Maybe I'm just lucky...

                          ~Sethos
                          "...and in the next instant he was one of the deadest men that ever lived." – Mark Twain

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                          • #14
                            Re: Web Mail?

                            Originally posted by uberlad
                            My girlfriend is about to go to Europe
                            ROTFL!!!!
                            Sat on a pile of deads, I enjoy my oysters.

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                            • #15
                              Thanks for the support ;-p

                              Uberlad
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                              8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
                              5 out of 10 referred to me by name.

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