FREE AND PAID EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER LIST ----------------------------------------- IN THIS OUR LIST OF SUGGESTED EMAIL SERVICES SOME ARE FREE SOME FOR A PRICE -- OR WITH OPTIONS THAT HAVE A PRICE -- SOME ARE INDEPENDENT AND SOME ARE MORE OR LESS TIED UP TO VARIOUS MONOPOLIES (CONSULT CHECKLIST ABOVE). PLS CAREFULLY EVALUATE BEFORE SIGNING UP ON ANY ONE OF THEM. NOTE THAT IF YOU MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE IN A SOLID WEBHOSTING & WEBHOTEL COMPANY YOU GET YOUR OWN EMAIL THERE, AS WELL (we can safely recommend the Norwegian www.proisp.no as professional yet inexpensive webhosting and webhotel company, which we obviously use ourselves). Alphabetical (after first prefix), incomplete list, with much good in it, and which is regularly updated but the checking of the content you must do yourself (some are nonenglish, some only viewable with javascript turned on, and some may have changed service since they were listed here). Many of these can provide a new email account for you, but some are listed here for associated services such as providing access of large files to a group, or a temporary email or forwarding. mail.aol.com www.ausi.com www.breakthru.com www.care2.com www.gmx.com www.inbox.com/tech/ www.mail.com/int www.mail-online.dk Denmark www.mailbigfile.com www.sendthisfile.com www.softhome.net www.spray.se Sweden fi.sunpoint.net Finland www.transferbigfiles.com www.yandex.com www.zoho.com/mail/ Consult search engines for more examples. Note that this list is updated by us about once pr season, a bit quickly, but also with a splash of intuition -- which sometimes leaves us to leave out some much-used alternatives, but we also include some less obvious alternatives; judge for yourself whether the list is good. Some general hints for those who want info on something slightly different: * if you don't know it already, the concept of 'proxyserver' -- search up these -- may sometimes allow many forms of country-specific-censorship be superceded; however there is no guarantee that a proxyserver is honoring your privacy -- anybody with some money and some programming competence can make a proxyserver * our experience with those services that appear to offer 'free websites' is that in a number of cases, their terms of service as they write is a glorified version of the real service they provide -- which may involve consistently no answers to any questions you may have, and which also may involve a censorship according to entirely unspecified rules * encyclopedias such as wikipedia.org can be used as a general type of search engine when you look at the bottom-most part of each entry where in many cases it says External Links; however the content of such encyclopedias must be considered proposals which have been hammered out by a mixture of algorithms, good editors, and biased editors, and influenced by commercial forces in various subtle and obvious ways; -- and so consult also conventional types of encyclopedias with a limited, carefully selected group of editors * most social websites that appear wildly open compared to more censored social websites in fact aren't more open: they are just more slow in deleting accounts -- it may take two weeks or so before the accounts are deleted, instead of two hours * to list a site in a search engine and get it to actually match the keywords that reflect what you are working with, isn't a simple thing; but it should not be necessary -- ever -- to pay a search engine to boost your listing; if the search engine is honest, it will list it as best it can, no matter who pays it what; and it will offer a place where you can type in your website and the websites that you care most about around in the world, such as our own http://www.yoga4d.org/update.htm * the prefix 'https://' suggest 's' for security or encryption, in contrast to http://. But all the world's best internet sites, which provides content for all, are http://. It makes sense though that some sites which are primarely for personal log-in -- and only them -- push through a https strain on the browser and the computer; a type of encryption which has been cracked a million times over by all who are interested in doing hacking of that encryption. It is typical for banks and acceptable for PURE email provides to go along with https, but it begs the question of whether the core security is good if general content-for-all sites are having the https prefix. Banks and just a few others should have https, and by and large, the rule is, for general purpose open websites, security involves having clean servers and good security routines, and key point of quality is that they put the free content out through http:// rather than https://. They can then have security encryption for those who wish, at special login-points. There are plenty of examples of this type of sites, and they are in general the best ones * last, but not least, the concept we have offered as important enough to be a headline in our socalled EcoNomy Column (e.g. at yoga6d.org/economy.htm) is Much Honesty in Business. For instance, when signing up for a digital service which you pay for, and which involves such as yearly automatically renewed invoices, it is of importance that you have signed up to an honest business. They must not only deliever the digital goods, and answer email questions you may have about these goods. They must also allow you to quit using that company before next invoice period begins, and in that way move on to another digital service company in time for that invoice period -- without getting an invoice later on, for a service you didn't request. Without mentioning specific company names, you should know that there are companies out there that doesn't provide automatic receipts when you cancel a renewal of new invoice period. Their business is founded on the dishonest notion of avoiding to give such receipts -- and then send an invoice, much later, to a creditor company; and, again without mentioning any company names, there are people who have set up their own creditor companies as well, and which apparently operate well within the law and to which notorious companies like the sloppy databases run by Dun & Bradstreet are giving the socalled triple-A or "AAA" rating. They give this rating to companies that pay their bills in time, NO MATTER HOW THEY GET TO PAY THEIR BILLS. So when you sign up for a customer relationship with a company that provide digital services -- you must first make sure that this is a company that actually answers emails, and do so promptly, and with meaningful content, and with actual names connected to these emails. You must also look carefully about the routines these companies have as for what happens when you quit having the digital service with them. Does it make sense? You must use all you have got of analytic intellect and then complement it with a sense of gut feeling; you must turn to the 'inner voices' because it is often not enough to look to knowledge gathered by the senses.