FREE EMAIL SOLUTIONS JUST GOT BETTER

Tired of junk mail clogging your mailbox and causing legitimate messages to bounce?  Or your email storage limit is so small that a couple of photos of the grandkids use up all of your space?  There is good news for you!  Yahoo has recently expanded the storage capacity for free email accounts from 4 megabytes to 100 megabytes and Excite will soon be raising their storage limit from 3 megabytes  to 125 megabytes.  Hotmail will be increasing their email storage capacity from 2 megabytes to 250 megabytes this Fall.  

All of this is in response to Google's new free email service "Gmail" which will offer an astounding 1 gigabyte (1,000 megabytes) of storage space.  Gmail is not available to the general public at this time, but you can sign up for updates about Gmail on this page.

At this time, only Yahoo has expanded storage capacity available.  If you need a solution right now, I  recommend Yahoo.  I've had a Yahoo mail account since 1997 and use it for several newsletters and email discussion groups without any problems.  It also has a great spam blocker...you identify spam as it comes in and it will dump all messages from that sender into a bulk folder that will not count against your email storage limit.  Here's another plus for Yahoo: they host our newsletter.  If you subscribe to the newsletter with a Yahoo email address, you are guaranteed to receive it.

If you already have an Excite or Hotmail email account, you'll get your upgrade in the near future.  

Remember, all free email services require that you use them.  Don't sign up and forget it, because your account could be deleted for inactivity.  Each provider has their own criteria for determining inactivity.  Be sure to read the terms of service for the provider that you choose for more details.

Kim Noblin, BlockCentral.com

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