On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 wiu.k12.pa.us@wiu.k12.pa.us wrote:

Telling people to just get another account is all well and good.  The 
question is, HOW?

Anyone know free NORMAL email?  Hello?

There are anime 'refugee' sites out there, and additionally, some admins
will grant accounts just for e-mail which can be picked up over POP3 (if
your machine is capable of browsing the web, I can guarantee you can find
-something- capable of acting as a POP3 client your machine can run).

The problem, which is killing off some refugee sites, is that many people
want -more- than just free e-mail.  They want webpages, e-mail, ftp space,
and god-knows-what else (mailing lists?) all on the same free service.
Y'know how many people I've had ask for webspace on maison-otaku.net? o_O;

Sometimes you're lucky and can find these things.  But, speaking as an
admin myself, I know that most of those services eat up resources.
Websites eat bandwidth.  Just ask White Wolf about resources for mailing
lists; though small lists aren't so bad.  Straight, simple e-mail does
-not- create a major problem (as long as the user remembers to clean out
their mailbox once in an eon).

Semi-on-topic-plug: TCP.com, a system which -did- provide many of those
services for free in the past (and hosted/hosts a great many Anime
references, like Hitoshi Doi's pages, the Venice archive, etc), nearly
folded because Jim Lick, the admin, had no money whatsoever coming in.
Though he's decided not to take down tcp.com, they're still in financial
trouble.  If you use any of the services on tcp.com, consider donating a
big.  http://www.tcp.com/donate/

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