I've been using bigmailbox for about a year and so many months. I tried everyone.net after bigmailbox started the popups way back in December of 99 I think, but just couldn't get to liking them. The service at everyone seemed a little slow, unreliable (I sent myself a few emails and never got them
) and at that time they had many outages due to 'maintenance'. I don't know if they are any better now, guess I should try them again just to see.
Bigmailbox stopped the popups for a while and just recently started again. I hope they will stop again, but not so sure as I emailed them about it and got the response that it is needed to keep them alive. Fair enough, we want them to keep breathing. Their support team has always been very helpful too.. which is also why I stay. BUT, they did close their forums when they thought we were ganging up on them about the pop-ups.. which was a bad business move IMHO.
The spam isn't 3 emails a week, if it were that I would not be using them any longer. It is once a month and the spam is based on the preferences you choose. Why they don't consider it spam though is because you agree to getting those emails by signing up or continueing use of the service...
Also, if you have ICQ notify you of emails like I do, if it is the bigmailbox spam it reads notify@bulkmail.bigmailbox.com as the sender.... which is also kind of nice because I usually rush to my inbox for anything important.. if I see it is the bulkmail junk I can be at ease and know there's no need to check on it ASAP. Okay, so that isn't that great of an added feature.. but anyway
I'm done ranting about this...
Has anyone tried
http://www.outblaze.net? I was always curious about them but never did fax them the needed information.
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I'm not even sure if it is .net or .com. I visited the site just now and found it hard to find the info on the free service I knew of (although I think there was some kind of requirement of site traffic required for it too). Any other free places like bigmailbox or everyone.net??
[Edited by AnneX on 01-15-2001 at 03:03 AM]