Comments on: Is E-Mail Worth Paying For?

By: mr. traffic

mr. traffic — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:22:18 +0000

Traffic exchange is an example of a way to get noticed also. Not sure how many people use them but they still work.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:27:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing. That was EXACTLY what I had in mind.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:24:28 +0000

In reality, we do pay for email service. It is called internet service..

By: shanedr

shanedr — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:27:35 +0000

I do not know of any ISP who gives you the option of not having email at a reduced price. As your email is therefore free with your ISP, I fail to see the purpose of this article.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:34:24 +0000

Firstly, in answer to the question: No, I don’t believe it’s worth paying for. I’d have a hard time saying that in the 10 years I’ve been using Hotmail/Live I’ve had more than a half dozen occasions where the service died and I had no access.

Secondly, in reference to the perk of synchronizing Hotmail with Outlook, you don’t need to be a paid subscriber to do this. I have the MS Office Outlook Connector and it allows me to access/manage my ‘free’ Hotmail email account via Outlook. (Actually it allows me to access more than one account.) So long as Outlook is validated, it works fine.

As per a previous post, I also have RoadRunner via Brighthouse, and while I don’t use it, I’ve also never paid for an email service in my life – nor do I have plans to do so.

By: Vertimyst™

Vertimyst™ — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:21:43 +0000

I use Gmail, and probably will continue to do so for a long time. I don’t like Hotmail’s webmail interface, and my ISP’s service sucks. With them, I got about 100 spam messages /per day/. Yes, you read that correctly.

With Gmail I’m lucky if I get 1. I usually do get 1 every couple months, though.

I did have a Yahoo account, but again, it was spam hell. Also, I don’t get a lot of email per day, so paying isn’t really worth it for me.

Personally, I think the only people who really need to pay for email are those who work in tech support, or sales. Usually, though, the companies provide the email to their employees, so even then, paying isn’t needed.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:10:28 +0000

My favorite of email is live by hotmail. Since having this email (3months) I haven’t had one count, not one piece of spam mail. I also like the fact that it downloads right to my desk top, and I don’t see any adds and it is free.. I usually don’t keep my emails long just enough time to read then delete. I also have Yahoo, and by far is the worst I have ever had.. I constantly get spam even when the spam filter is on high or whatever you call it..I have but never use my email from Road Runner, and don’t plan on it..Also I personally don’t believe in paying for it, because I’m not a business person, and don’t have a lot of mail that comes to me that are considered important.

By: trendless

trendless — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:49:26 +0000

a couple things:

You can leave your mail on the ISP’s server with POP (OE and full Outlook, as well as any other client I’ve ever seen have a “leave messages on server” option). Read status and sorting won’t replicate back as POP is a 1-way protocol and just like with webmail services they have mail account size limits, which are usually VASTLY smaller than gmail/hotmail/yahoo offers even in their free services.

As for custom domain email, really it’s the cost of a domain/year, since you can get Google Apps for My Domain for free and you can configure it to work exactly like a regular ISP pop account (or better, IMAP) if you so desire. I’ve recently started using this service and have yet to experience any downtime issues; I guess time will tell.

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:50:21 +0000

Domain mail is a good alternative (I used it for years) but for most people this is not a good option just for e-mail. There is a domain reg cost and hosting costs so it’s not exactly cost effective.

Even if you go as cheap as a $9.00 domain reg fee and $5/mo hosting that still equals almost $70 yearly.

By: Perkster

Perkster — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:38:58 +0000

What about the emails you get on your own domain or paying for email from some web host, they provide webmail and pop access too and not linked to any ISP and if you prefer to use your ISP email, then have your own domain email forward all emails to that, then when you switch ISP, change change the forwarding address to your new ISp address, but to your friends and contacts your email address never changes.