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The Web: What's the appeal of free e-mail?
A story about free e-mail.
Chicago, IL, Jun. 8 (UPI) -- America Online introduced free e-mail for the Web this week, aiming to vie with existing offerings from Microsoft's Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Google's Gmail, but experts told UPI's The Web the free e-mail concept's time already may have passed.
Only a small portion of Internet users take advantage of free e-mail accounts, with most preferring to use e-mail provided by commercial services or their own companies.
"Coca-Cola does not do business with a free e-mail account, and neither do most small businesses," said Mike Neumeier, a spokesman for Interland, a Web-hosting company in Atlanta. "Even small businesses want a domain name that identifies who they are." By Gene Koprowski
Only a small portion of Internet users take advantage of free e-mail accounts, with most preferring to use e-mail provided by commercial services or their own companies.
"Coca-Cola does not do business with a free e-mail account, and neither do most small businesses," said Mike Neumeier, a spokesman for Interland, a Web-hosting company in Atlanta. "Even small businesses want a domain name that identifies who they are." By Gene Koprowski
For more information:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?...
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