What email addresses aren't banned?

[Kirsten]

I just tried to switch my email profile from my netscape address to a hotmail address and anandtech replied with a ban.
If hotmail.com is banned on anandtech... what free email servers are available?

Kirsten

 

[Jason Clark]

Click faq on the menu, there is a list there of banned servers.

 

[Kirsten]

Well, I'm certainly not going to use my personal email address for the some 12 or 15 forums I subscribe to. If I can't use yahoo or hotmail, what do people recommend?

Thanks very much,
Kirsten

 

[olds]

I don't like using mine either, I'd like to keep it spam free. I just did a quick search maybe something here might help.

 

[JSSheridan]

A Go.com email addresses might be a good try. Peace.

 

[ProviaFan]

mail.com works for me.

 

[Bleep]

whoops I was going to suggest netscape.

Bleep

 

[Kirsten]

Why would go.com or mail.com be more acceptable to anandtech than hotmail or yahoo.com?

Thx, Kirsten

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Kirsten
Why would go.com or mail.com be more acceptable to anandtech than hotmail or yahoo.com?

Thx, Kirsten

This is mostly a semi educated guess and the short version.
They may eventually be banned if posters from there become a problem. Anonymous email addressess are not liked here because there is less accountability.
Say a person who is spamming these forums uses comcast. Spamming is a violation of Anandtech's TOS and they risk having their account closed by their ISP. This is assuming comcast would cooperate with AT. AOL didn't and they can't register here anymore. Also if a person from comcast trolls (rips off) a member on the For/Sale/Trade forum, it would be easier to track that person.
Now we have Hotmail/yahoo/etc.. If they spam or troll there is no way to find/catch them.
IMHO, it is about accountability. I like it when I do trades but I dislike having my "good" email address hanging out there.

 

[Kirsten]

also, I just checked go.com and it doesn't appear to be pop mail... any good free pop mail that is anandtech sanctioned?
Thanks,Kirsten

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Kirsten
also, I just checked go.com and it doesn't appear to be pop mail... any good free pop mail that is anandtech sanctioned?
Thanks,Kirsten

myrealbox.com, best free email I've ever seen, by far (it is run by novell).

edit: I had this avatar first

 

[BennyD]

yahoo.co.uk

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

edit: I had this avatar first

And you also have a long name


If you register with a "free dial-up ISP" they should supply you with a pop e-mail account, although you wont be using their Internet.

Some ISP's will only let you retrieve your pop mail if your connected to the net via them, but there are a lot out there who dont do it like that.

Just a little help whilst i was browsing

Dan

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: BennyD
yahoo.co.uk

And if you had been reading properly, you cant use yahoo :|

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: MrFiTTy

Originally posted by: BennyD
yahoo.co.uk

And if you had been reading properly, you cant use yahoo :|

yahoo.com is not the same thing as yahoo.co.uk

Email address from that domain WILL WORK.

 

[Wolfsraider]

i use lycos mail

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: aves2k

Originally posted by: MrFiTTy

Originally posted by: BennyD
yahoo.co.uk

And if you had been reading properly, you cant use yahoo :|

yahoo.com is not the same thing as yahoo.co.uk

Email address from that domain WILL WORK.

Oh righty, kewl

 

[tm37]

I have my real email adress here and I don't receive any spam in that box. I have used it here and with FW and neither has givin me any spam.

 

[BennyD]

Originally posted by: MrFiTTy

Originally posted by: BennyD
yahoo.co.uk

And if you had been reading properly, you cant use yahoo :|

i have signed up with ayahoo.co.uk address

 

[acidvoodoo]

www.lycos.com

 

[hjn]

i use skatepile.com, it works and it's not bad... im in the military and it passes the filter.. and i skate

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: jliechty
mail.com works for me.

You do need to have a good pop-up stopper if you are going to use it.

 

[rudeguy]

I can offer people a pop email account if need be...
yourname@ineff.com