| Get
a free e-mail account |
This
is the very first thing to do. You may already have an e-mail account
at the ISP (Internet Service Provider) you pay for access to the
internet. But you should protect it and reserve it for use with
trusted parties - your friends and family. When you sign up for the
free services I tell you about, you will almost certainly be asked for
an e-mail address.
Giving away an e-mail address to
a lot of companies are a certain way to attract a lot of advertising
mail. If this kind of mail is unsolicited (you didn't asked for it),
then it is called SPAM. Companies trade e-mail addresses and the spam
can be too much. At that point the only thing to do is to discard that
e-mail address and get a new one.
There are a lot of places where
you are offered a free e-mail account. Most of them are web-based.
They require you to go to a web-site and log in to use your e-mail
account. It is more convenient, to be able to use an ordinary mail
program like MS-Outlook Express, but that requires, that the e-mail
account support the POP3 protocol, which very few free e-mail accounts
do.
Among the few free POP3 e-mail
accounts are:
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| GMX |
Global Message Exchange is a German
company, but they offer their service in a number of other languages -
like English - as well.
They are a very stable provider,
but the mail is only kept on their server for 30 days and you have to
accept to receive an e-mail news-letter.
They have also web-access and a
very good spam filtering service.
My own GMX address is arnochen@gmx.net.
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