Monday, August 13, 2007

Web Based E-mail or Not?

Web Based E-mail

For a long time I didn’t know that there were two different
types of e-mail. I was on a message board that was having a
lot of problems with trolls. Trolls are people who come to
message boards looking to make trouble, and have nothing
constructive to add to any conversation. When there are
many trolls on a message board, the message board moderator
does everything they can to get rid of them. I remember one
member suggesting that anyone with web based e-mail be
banned from the site.

What bothered me about this was that I realized that I had
signed up for that site with web based e-mail. Though my
Internet service provider offered me an e-mail address, I
rarely used it. I relied on the web based e-mail because I
would moved a lot, and I didn’t like to change my e-mail
address every single time I moved to a new location and got
a new Internet service provider. It was simply a matter of
common sense that keeping the same web based e-mail address
was much easier and more convenient for me. If you have had
to change your e-mail address on a regular basis, you know
what a pain in the butt it can be.

There is one problem with web-based e-mail however. If you
have any type of business online you want to have an e-mail
address that is either related to your site, or that is
through your Internet service provider. There are so many
people out there who use web-based e-mail for things that
are not exactly legitimate. You may notice that some of the
spam e-mail you get in your e-mail box comes from web-based
e-mail addresses. Some people won’t take you seriously if
he uses type of e-mail for any type of business reason.

However, web based e-mail is generally FRE E, and very
useful. I use Yahoo, and I have used it for a very long
time. Not only is it reliable, it has changed with the
times. They do not rely on keeping customers by staying the
same, and I have found that they have rolled out new
improvements before other types of e-mail programs have. No
matter what type of web-based e-mail you choose, you may
find that even if you have e-mail through your Internet
service provider, you want to have at least one of these
e-mail addresses. This means that even if you move you have
to change your other e-mail addresses you will always have
one that remains the same.