[WEB4LIB] Preferred public email accounts

[Keith Higgs]

While it's not the only option out there I would have to agree with this
evaluation of Yahoo. Their spam filter has actually gotten quite good
and gets better all the time.  In fact, the now have tools for you to
tell them that a particular message is spam so they can enhance their
filter.

I now see less than 4 spam messages a month in my Yahoo account. It used
to be several per day.  Contrast that with the (literally) hundreds that
are handled every day by my client side filtering on this account.

D. Keith Higgs <mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu>
 Case Western Reserve University, Webmaster - University Library
 Additional Information at http://www.cwru.edu/UL/
"Follow the white rabbit."


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Bill Teschek
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:29 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Preferred public email accounts
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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