know the problem. Instant messaging is working ok - so I know I've got 4 new emails - but I can't get into bl**dy hotmail. Torture for the 21st century. They're probably all from Homebase advertising 2% off ride-on lawnmowers if you get there between 8.04 and 8.07 on Saturday morning anyway, but...
Apparently Eudora is free and excellent. No spam, either. I don't know if it has instant messaging though, I haven't tried it myself. Yahoo's free too, but as much spam as hotmail. Freeserve's free - but crap.
www.eudora.com if you're interested. It says something about downloading software, haven't looked too closely, but my brother seems to be able to access his eudora email from wherever he is.
Who's your ISP? I use BTOpenWorld, and every lunchtime I log on to btopenworld.com and access my email account from there. No matter how many times I view the emails in the inbox they aren't wiped. It's only when you download them via Outlook that they are moved from the account inbox, to the Outlook inbox.
The online email is far quicker than hotmail, and they have online virus checkers, which is handy. I would have thought that any ISP worth their salt would offer this kind of service.
do u have a POP3 account? (one that the email is downloaded into outlook) then go to http://www.mail2web.com where you can check ur email online no matter who the provider is and what type of account it is. The emails remain on the email server until they are removed by downloading into outlook. You can also send emails via mail2web
Barkles, I used to insist on having a free ISP, and I tried lots, but it's the same as any other product: YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!
So..... bit the bullet and joined aol. Narrowband is £15.99 a month with genuine unlimited access and no hidden charges; broadband £27.99. I would NEVER go back to any of my previous free ones.
would touch AOhell with a stick, I signed up for the "free" trail and when it finished they started billing me , ecven though I only used the account once. Fisrt month , rang to cancel. It was cancelled. Next month I got charged, cancelled again
etc etc etc . Finally got it stopped at my credit card account ,
So then compuserve started charging me . For all I know they may still be charging me , it was about this time I took the scissors to my plastic
IMHO if everyone sigsn up for the advertised ones , ie AOL BTOpenworld freeserve etc then eventually you have a bottleneck. My sister in law has BT and at peak times its dead slow .
Do a Google for free isps in the uk and find the one that offers the most
used to be free, but pop-up ads were a mare so they started charging 24 quid a year. It's good though 10Mb for mail, 5Mb for attachments. and you get to make up up to 20 addresses - like all these: cripplednscarred@casualty.co.uk scum@northerner.co.uk b.a.t.m.a.n@capedcrusader.co.uk cripplednscarred@another.com eye.eye.eye.eye@stayinalive.co.uk could_i_be_anymore@boredstiff.co.uk tim_thinks@thats-bullshit.com de-de-de-der@ludvigvanbeethoven.co.uk glad-i-am-not@circumcised.co.uk super_ted_and@spotty.co.uk still-doing@bugger-all.com never-been-guilty-of@good-taste.co.uk get-me-a-slushie@the-kwik-e-mart.com i-am-a@tromboneplayer.co.uk i-am-not-a@first-time-buyer.co.uk trying_for_all_7@deadlysins.co.uk
give it a try. I find it really useful, pretty reliable and not flooded with spam either. (Altho having posted all those addys I'm sure that will change!)
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Apparently Eudora is free and excellent. No spam, either. I don't know if it has instant messaging though, I haven't tried it myself. Yahoo's free too, but as much spam as hotmail. Freeserve's free - but crap.
www.eudora.com if you're interested. It says something about downloading software, haven't looked too closely, but my brother seems to be able to access his eudora email from wherever he is.
Guess not so good if you're surreptitiously trying to access email from work. Have no idea how my brother accesses it from his house and our parents'.
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The online email is far quicker than hotmail, and they have online virus checkers, which is handy. I would have thought that any ISP worth their salt would offer this kind of service.
Big Bopper
do u have a POP3 account? (one that the email is downloaded into outlook)
then go to http://www.mail2web.com where you can check ur email online no matter who the provider is and what type of account it is. The emails remain on the email server until they are removed by downloading into outlook. You can also send emails via mail2web
you really are a wealth of information
just change your name to Oracle
I also use Outlook express and a spam trap
it's just me then...
So..... bit the bullet and joined aol. Narrowband is £15.99 a month with genuine unlimited access and no hidden charges; broadband £27.99. I would NEVER go back to any of my previous free ones.
ok if I am paying, which is the best???
so I've been told
etc etc etc . Finally got it stopped at my credit card account ,
So then compuserve started charging me . For all I know they may still be charging me , it was about this time I took the scissors to my plastic
so who can I trust to provide a good service and not arse me around?
Its an 0845 number , so its 1p local call
IMHO if everyone sigsn up for the advertised ones , ie AOL BTOpenworld freeserve etc then eventually you have a bottleneck. My sister in law has BT and at peak times its dead slow .
Do a Google for free isps in the uk and find the one that offers the most
Its a lottery
anyone using yahoo?
used to be free, but pop-up ads were a mare so they started charging 24 quid a year. It's good though 10Mb for mail, 5Mb for attachments. and you get to make up up to 20 addresses - like all these: cripplednscarred@casualty.co.uk
scum@northerner.co.uk
b.a.t.m.a.n@capedcrusader.co.uk
cripplednscarred@another.com
eye.eye.eye.eye@stayinalive.co.uk
could_i_be_anymore@boredstiff.co.uk
tim_thinks@thats-bullshit.com
de-de-de-der@ludvigvanbeethoven.co.uk
glad-i-am-not@circumcised.co.uk
super_ted_and@spotty.co.uk
still-doing@bugger-all.com
never-been-guilty-of@good-taste.co.uk
get-me-a-slushie@the-kwik-e-mart.com
i-am-a@tromboneplayer.co.uk
i-am-not-a@first-time-buyer.co.uk
trying_for_all_7@deadlysins.co.uk
give it a try. I find it really useful, pretty reliable and not flooded with spam either. (Altho having posted all those addys I'm sure that will change!)
cheers n mailing beers
cns