[Leaplist] email accounts

[Carter Manucy]

John Simpson wrote:
>
> gmail doesn't have "as much of" the same negative stigma, because 
> until recently they were "invitation only", and therefore most gmail 
> users had a clue about what they were doing with computers... however 
> now that they allow anybody to sign up, i can see them getting the 
> same negative reputation as yahoo, hotmail, and aol, within the next 
> year or two (if not sooner.)

Something not too many folks are aware of is that Google also is 
offering a "Google For Domains" as another free service.  I've been 
playing around with it with one of my (too many) 'extra' domains.  You 
buy a domain, jump though a few hoops to prove that you own it, and then 
you can have 50 (or is it 100?) e-mail accounts for free.  Each account 
is up to around 2.8G I believe.  They also have a web hosting service 
with a free webpage 'maker'.  Of course, all of this is 
"@yourdomain.com", not gmail.com or whatever else.

The nice thing is you get your domain & all the anti-spam features gmail 
comes with.  You get some of the fun toys (like chat/IM, if you like).  
You also get all of the indexing features as well... which might not be 
such a good thing.

But it might be worth considering.

-Carter