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Lycos beats Google to 1gb mail, for a fee
Lycos announced Tuesday that it is upgrading its service in the United Kingdom to give consumers 1GB of e-mail storage. But unlike some rival services being developed, the Lycos service is not free. Users will have to pay a monthly fee of 3.40 pounds ($6.01).
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---agissi---
on May 18, 2004 3:30 PM |
Why when you could use a free email account paired with Outlook, and store an infinite amount of gigabytes on your hard drive? |
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Marconey09
on May 18, 2004 4:40 PM |
I'd say just get a bunch of free E-Mail accounts. Hahaha! It's cheaper then paying :grinthumb |
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Mictlantecuhtli
on May 18, 2004 4:47 PM |
[quote][i]Originally posted by ---agissi--- [/i]Why when you could use a free email account paired with Outlook, and store an infinite amount of gigabytes on your hard drive? [/quote] Because with Outlook (or any other similar e-mail client) you're restricted to your own computer. What if you don't have a laptop that you carry everywhere and you need to refer to some of your old mails? |
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Marconey09
on May 18, 2004 4:53 PM |
I would still go with my idea... Just transfer it to a different E-Mail Adress. |
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---agissi---
on May 18, 2004 5:10 PM |
Ah good point Mic..Your idea sounds a big crazy Marconey. |
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Marconey09
on May 18, 2004 5:46 PM |
Hahaha! So it never hurts to try does it? ;) :grinthumb |
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Nodsu
on May 19, 2004 1:17 AM |
A ganeric free mail account is less than 10 megabytes. You'd have to have a 100 mail accounts to beat Google. |
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Mictlantecuhtli
on May 19, 2004 5:02 AM |
By the way, now that there has been a debate about Gmail's privacy, would you rather pay a bit and use a different e-mail provider than to have a free one with possible privacy issues?Then again, who knows how Lycos handles private e-mails. Google says no human reads the mails, too. I've had no problems with Gmail. |
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Didou
on May 19, 2004 5:11 AM |
Even with your ISP's Email you're never really sure if the Echelon "security system" isn't scanning your Emails either.I always believed Emails stored by providers such as Hotmail were always read at one point or another by someone other then the account owner . I mostly use those Email adresses to register to forums & such, I rarely use them for really personal Emails.If privacy is really a concern then take a pen & a pad & write the old way. But then again, are you sure your mailman doesn't open your letters before putting them in your mailbox ?[img]http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/Smilies/shrug.g f[/img] |
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Marconey09
on May 19, 2004 8:53 AM |
Hahaha! I don't really care about "Privacy Issues!" |
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Mictlantecuhtli
on May 20, 2004 4:00 AM |
Yet another 1 GB mailbox: [url=http://www.spymac.com/network.php?p=tour]Spymac[/url] |
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