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Jun 8, 2005, 12:10 PM
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AOL launches free Web mail service
America Online introduced free Web-based e-mail service on Monday as part of the latest upgrade of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).
By offering an alternative to its fee-based e-mail service, AOL will compete with popular free Web mail services such as those offered by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, AOL also expanded its existing fee-based service to include unlimited storage, making it the first Web mail provider to do so. In addition to such features as spam filters, anti-virus protection, and the ability to drag and drop messages into folders, the new AOL e-mail service offers 2G bytes of memory. This places it on a level similar to Google's Gmail, which sports 2.3G bytes of storage. Yahoo currently offers 1G byte of free storage and Microsoft's Hotmail offers 250M bytes. _____________ Source/Read More: Network World |
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Jun 8, 2005, 12:10 PM
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Delete Me
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2 gigs of unsolicited viagra adds......
damn I love AOL! |
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Jun 8, 2005, 12:22 PM
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DriverHeaven Addict
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Virginia, USA
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but why, it's not like there aren't enough free emails out there, do we really need another one. Given AOL's track record it's not like it's got a chance at being better than Gmail.
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Jun 8, 2005, 01:40 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Through personal experience I would recommend ppl to stay away as far as possible from AOL, they SUCK!
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Jun 8, 2005, 01:59 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Well has any one actually tried it yet?
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Jun 8, 2005, 02:15 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Lots of people block all AOL email since nobody takes AOL users seriously. This is obviously an attempt to get people to unblock AOL email.
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Jun 8, 2005, 02:25 PM
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DriverHeaven Addict
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Virginia, USA
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even if AOL does awesome, gmail is already better than all the rest, including IMO programs such as outlook, and thunderbird
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Jun 8, 2005, 03:39 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kuwait
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Quote:
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Jun 8, 2005, 04:07 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Roswell, NM, USA
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This seems like a very pathedic attempt on AOL's part.
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Jun 8, 2005, 04:29 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 489
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You can check your GMail account with Outlook/Outlook express. They give you free POP3 access.
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