I’ve always kept three active e-mail accounts. One I only give out to my close friends and family, one I give to friends and contacts, and the third is the one I use publicly, on this page and whenever I sign up for anything via the web (this shuffles most of my spam to the public addy).<\/p>\n
Due to changes in Yahoo! Mail<\/a>‘s terms of service, I need to discontinue using my @yahoo.com address. My new public e-mail address is djwudi@myrealbox.com.<\/p>\n (Incidentally, parents, friends, or anyone who has either of my other two addys — you don’t need to worry, those are staying the same).<\/p>\n Yesterday, Yahoo! Mail<\/a> sent out a notice to all of its POP3 service users (this allowed you to use an external client — such as the Mac OS X Mail program — to check your Yahoo! Mail account, rather than having to use the web-based client) stating that as of April 24th, they would no longer be providing this service for free<\/a> — rather, you’d have to purchase a $30\/year ‘premium’ account. Since I would much rather use my Mail client than have to use the web client, I decided to find a new public addy.<\/p>\n I found a thread on MetaFilter<\/a> discussing this, and one of the comments suggested<\/a> that we take a look at Lycos UK<\/a>‘s free e-mail, as it has the best free e-mail deal available on the web today (“…15 meg of storage, POP3 access, and importantly — SMTP access with unlimited attachment size for outgoing mail.”).<\/p>\n So, I stopped by this morning and signed up. Now I just have to ferret out all those places on the web that I gave my yahoo.com addy and change them over…(sigh).<\/p>\n