I got a ten-year paid email account at Pobox.com back in 1999–only $50! It’s more expensive now, of course, but still around US$50/year. It was purchased by its only real competitor, Fastmail.com. FM is based in Australia. They provide several nifty web interfaces, phone apps, as well as IMAP and POP. It’s been down twice for me since 1999. Great spam filters, and 24hr email/chat service that’s helpful!
My real life account has been there almost 20 yrs. Now I added a “fandom” address there (each account offers 5 aliases). Then for truly throwaway stuff, I use mail.com, which is free, ad supported, and its web site is peak Yahoo 2003.
Happily, a paid Fastmail account lets me fetch the throwaway address from the mail.com server so I don’t ever use that terrible web site.
The $50/year FM plan lets one person admin 5 addresses, so it’s conceivable 5 folks could split the cost—less than a movie.
Each account also has private file storage, address book, and CalDAV for iCal etc.
I will create a fresh Google account so I can save places in Maps, but that’s the only G-service I care about. It’s not immediately obvious, but one can join GGroups with a non-Gmail address.
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I got a ten-year paid email account at Pobox.com back in 1999–only $50! It’s more expensive now, of course, but still around US$50/year. It was purchased by its only real competitor, Fastmail.com. FM is based in Australia. They provide several nifty web interfaces, phone apps, as well as IMAP and POP. It’s been down twice for me since 1999. Great spam filters, and 24hr email/chat service that’s helpful!
My real life account has been there almost 20 yrs. Now I added a “fandom” address there (each account offers 5 aliases). Then for truly throwaway stuff, I use mail.com, which is free, ad supported, and its web site is peak Yahoo 2003.
Happily, a paid Fastmail account lets me fetch the throwaway address from the mail.com server so I don’t ever use that terrible web site.
The $50/year FM plan lets one person admin 5 addresses, so it’s conceivable 5 folks could split the cost—less than a movie.
Each account also has private file storage, address book, and CalDAV for iCal etc.
I will create a fresh Google account so I can save places in Maps, but that’s the only G-service I care about. It’s not immediately obvious, but one can join GGroups with a non-Gmail address.
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