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Free Email and Listservs

There’s been a lot in the news lately about free e-mail and listservs going to paid versions, loss of privacy for individuals, spamming, and poor service. Here are some e-mail accounts that are still free, followed by other listserv options besides Yahoo. 

Nightsneak 

Free E-mail 

Pop3 Free E-mail Accounts

http://www.f-free.net/e.free/cid=11 

More Pop3 E-mail Accounts—Free or Free Trials

http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_pop.htm 

Free E-Mail Providers Guide—US and International, by Supplier or Special Interest

http://www.fepg.net/providers.html 

Web-Based POP3 Readers—These providers allow you to read your POP3-accessible mail through a web-based interface from any computer anywhere in the world.

http://www.fepg.net/readers.html 

E-Mail Forwarding, POP3 and Web-based Services

http://www.internetemaillist.com/ 

Discussion Groups and Newsletters are another area that is being taken to paid or spam-level heights. Here are some Listservs that are still free and provide other options. 

Topica—Can read messages from web, or sent to your inbox at address that you choose.

http://www.topica.com/create 

Smartgroups--Each SmartGroup has a: homepage with basic group information (SmartGroups.com automatically sets it up), message area, event calendar, files area, picture albums, voting area, classified ads, simple database system

http://www.smartgroups.com 

Freelists—lists are all internet and technology-related without the support of advertisements.

http://www.freelists.org/ 

VPMail—Ads on free version. Moderator and subscriber options, archives.

http://www.list.to/index.html

NightSneak is a private investigator and a collector of URLs.  Her specialties are security and privacy.