Webmail

[Dr Hsu]

Wondering what people's experiences are with webmail ie Hotmail, yahoo, lycos etc etc.

I am mostly wondering about the volume of spam that one gets from these servers eg I hear that you get a lot of spam on hotmail, much less on lycos (which has filtering functions on the server) etc.

Other benefits?

Am thinking of getting one so that I can get a permanent mail address, and switch ISPs whenever there's a better deal!

[Toh Chen Han]

I have tried Hotmail and Yahoo. The former gives very little free space (2 mb) whereas Yahoo allows for 4mb (thats what it says in the ads anyway - I have 6 mb but registered some time back). Yahoo has effective spam protection.

[kennho]

Yahoo! best so far. Got spams ? Just email to the yahoo webmaster and someone will follow up. Very effective. I think they have the least popup ads and very "clean" ads ... unlike some with real erotic ones.

[Toh Chen Han]

Go to uk.yahoo.com ---> mail there they give 6 mb . i think the regular yahoo gives 4mb only

[Ong Chin Kiong]

I am using yahoo as my permanent email address as well. It serve me well so far for a few years already. Once in a while, you will encounter some site's registration that will not allow web mail address. However, I have not encountered such a site recently.
You can register a few accounts for different purposes as well, it is up to you.

[Foo Hong]

YAHHOOOOOOOO !!!!!! [eb]

[Toh Chen Han]

Ok new info.... try www.fastmail.fm this looks to be rather high tech (features) and they give 10 mb free space which is plenty compared to the others

[Dr Hsu]

[tx]Chen Han. Looks [col]. Will spend some time looking at it in more detail before trying. Anyone has tried it yet? Testimonials look good.

BTW for those more computer literate, what does the bandwith per month limit mean? With email, will it be relevant, especially if we're not sending and downloading massive graphics all the time?
quote:Originally posted by tohchenhan

Ok new info.... try www.fastmail.fm this looks to be rather high tech (features) and they give 10 mb free space which is plenty compared to the others

[Chris Yew]

For email, it's called Transfer quota. Bandwidth limit is mainly for website.

Transfer quota : How many megabytes of traffic can go through the account. A one megabyte message to one recipient results in two megabytes of traffic, since it is received from your PC (1MB) and sent to the recipient (1MB). Sending a one megabyte message to nine people creates ten megabytes of traffic, using the same logic. Sometimes, email may contain graphics and this results in more Mb used.

Bandwidth Limit is similar but based on how many ppl view the page on your site. If each page consists of 1 Mb, and 10 ppl viewed it - results in 10Mb. If these 10 ppl view 10 pages, then it will be 100MB.



quote:Originally posted by Dr Hsu

[tx]Chen Han. Looks [col]. Will spend some time looking at it in more detail before trying. Anyone has tried it yet? Testimonials look good.

BTW for those more computer literate, what does the bandwith per month limit mean? With email, will it be relevant, especially if we're not sending and downloading massive graphics all the time?
quote:Originally posted by tohchenhan

Ok new info.... try www.fastmail.fm this looks to be rather high tech (features) and they give 10 mb free space which is plenty compared to the others

[Dr Hsu]

Yah, theory I can figure out but what does that translate into real world terms???? Sorry, ah...I real blur when it comes to these things!

[Ong Chin Kiong]

The bandwidth limit per month means that if you used all the bandwidth of that month, then you won't be able to use your account for that month there after.
IMHO go with one without the bandwidth limit. Between 6MB and 10MB of storage space for your email, 6MB is more than enough. Those emails that you intend to keep, you can download it to your PC. For the bandwidth limit, if you subscribe to any forum or mailing list, the bandwidth will be use up quite fast.

[Toh Chen Han]

Yeah, based on Chris's explanation I guess the bandwith limits the number of times you can access your email. But what the bandwith limit translates to in real terms is a mystery. It could be a great excess of what you might reasonably use every month, or not. I guess you would run into few problems if you check your email only once or twice a day (cf hourly). =)