I love care2. It's an Australian site, eco and social justice friendly. That was my first, and remains my primary, personal e-mail. Excellent service, reliable.

I fyou were willing to spend a little money you could buy a domain name and a mail only service from just about any provider and that remains yours for live so long as you keep up with the subscription.

I like gmail. Lots of options, good junk mail filter.  Email, Calendar, Tasks (to do list), Contacts, (Address Book)  all connected (ie put email in task list. Schedule tasks in Calendar. Also works well with Android and Apple phones and tablets.

 

You can also use Gmail to make free phone calls to anywhere in North America on your PC or Ipad.  I even have an extension on my Chrome browser that allows me to click on any phone number on the web. and it will dial the number with Gmail.

 

I use gmail

That's what I do for my primary email. I maintain a gmail account for other correspondence, and a couple of throwaway accounts for dealing with scammers and religious nutjobs.

You realize there are nutjobs other than religious, right?  Do you have special names for them?

I think it`s because he`s not particularly afraid of atheist nutjobs lol.

 

aaah, but you are limiting him to faith based ones.

 

how about  cooking nutjobs, or vegan nutjobs or motorcyclist nutjobs.

You will pry my Sympatico email address from my cold, dead hands. I have a 3 digit customer number (signed up on the day Sympatico went public on dialup in 1994) and a grandfathered HSLD account with unlimited download. No caps!

 

Beware Teksavvy. Lots of stories of their service declining.

 

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy

I occasionally email financial scam artists, and religious nutjobs. These groups are not mutually exclusive. Those are about the only variety of nutjobs I talk to, so I keep a couple of accounts for that purpose, because those accounts often end up curiously signed up for spam.

I like gmail best, then yahoo and live. I also have a university account, but I wouldn't exactly consider it free.

 

That's one of the services I'm looking at, so thanks for the tip. The director of IT for our coporate group has them and likes them but that's only one review. I have three others that I'm also looking at so it's not a done deal yet. To be honest, I can't see them being worse than what I have with Bell. The DSL in this area sucks so whoever I use, I'm moving to cable.

 

And I went with GMail. I already have an address with them and I like Google's current direction more so than Mickeysoft's.

 

Mendalla

 

 

Right-wing and left-wing political nutjobs are the ones that get on my nerves the most, to be honest.

 

And lets not forget the just-plain-nuts nutjobs who don't need a category added.

 

Mendalla

 

And I adore Teksavvy. They've been my phone AND ISP for many, many years of great service. I had some difficulty with my internet because of deteriorated phone lines maybe 4 years ago. I had five messages in two days from Teksavvy telling me what they were doing to solve my problem, which they did.

FYI, GMail won out.

 

Mendalla

 

I have a 2 digit, no caps!, address with a local provider ... signed up the same year :-) 

 

It was very liberating from the whole name address I had been assigned back in '89.  Even though I no longer use their services for connection, I pay to keep that address.

 

A friend lost their Sympatico address when they moved up here and had to switch to wireless connection.  I can't remember the excuse Sympatico gave but it was lame.  We created a gmail account with the same name.

 

I also have my own domain and gmail addresses.

 

University address? I had my first internet address at io.org in 1992. Very geeky back then.  

I was on Rose Media (a Hamilton BBS with an Internet mail gateway) around 1992. My wife (fiancee at the time) was in Halifax teaching at Dal so it was an easy and cheap way to stay in touch (long distance was still fairly pricey at that point, esp. relative to today). Later in the decade, I was on one of the working groups for starting the Hamilton-Wentworth Community Network and had an email address with them until I moved to London in '99, which is when we started using Sympatico.  Technically had email and Usenet in 88-89 when I was a Masters student at Western, but didn't really use it much at that time.

 

Mendalla