Preferred public email accounts

[Bill Teschek]

When your patrons ask for advice on what free, web-based email 
service to sign up with, what do you advise them? I'd like to find a 
service that is obscure enough not to generate great volumes of 
spam (like hotmail does) but stable enough to be unlikely to 
disappear some day in the near future. I've been suggesting yahoo 
as a better alternative to hotmail, but would like to explore some 
other options.

Bill Teschek
Assistant Director
Lane Memorial Library
2 Academy Ave.
Hampton, NH 03842
bteschek at hampton.lib.nh.us
(603)-926-3368
(603)-926-1348 (fax)
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us