End of free E-mail?

[Thomas Dowling]

-----Original Message-----
From: MRSCLIST <MRSCLIST at mrsc.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 08, 1998 12:33 PM
Subject: End of free E-mail?


>I just read that Microsoft bought up Hotmail. Is this the end of free
>e-mail as we know it?
>


Why, was MSIE the end of free browsers or IIS the end of free servers?

The press release at
http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1997/dec97/hotmlpr.htm quotes a VP
at MSN: "Our goal is to combine the benefits of Hotmail with Microsoft
services and technology to provide consumers the best combination of free
and premium e-mail services".


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu