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Major Free Email Providers?

Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
So I'm working on a project (not homework) and I need to basically separate out some of the major free email providers from lists of email addresses. Obviously I came up with yahoo.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com - but what are some of the others that might come up the most often so I can atleast sort out maybe the top 5 or 10 of them?

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited August 2009
    msn.com has free email, I believe

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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I think "live.com" is a newish free one.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    You'll need to register, but there's a massive list attached to this post at the vBulletin forums.
    http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=662305&postcount=3

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Awesome lists thanks! Is AOL a free email provider now BTW? That link says "in principle they list it" - does that mean it's free or just that AOL users are a PITA?

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Lindsey Lohan wrote: »
    Awesome lists thanks! Is AOL a free email provider now BTW? That link says "in principle they list it" - does that mean it's free or just that AOL users are a PITA?

    A little of column A, a little of column B. :P

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Would institutional emails count as free? You obviously have to be a member of a given institution, but students would generally have free email accounts provided to them by their university/college.

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    no - we're more concerned with free email providers meaning I could easily create a free email adddress with google to make me look like Free Smith with no way to track it down.

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  • ResilientResilient Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    10minutemail.com is an interesting service. You get an email addy for 10 minutes with which you can only receive email. Not sure if that's something you would be looking for.

    Great for putting in an email for things where you just know spam will be coming.

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  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    saint2e wrote: »
    I think "live.com" is a newish free one.

    Its basically Hotmail with a new name.


    Also, five seconds at wikipedia gives you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_providers

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  • KetarKetar Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Excite.com used to be a fairly big player. I'm not sure if they'd still crack the top 10 though - my guess is probably not.

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  • JHunzJHunz Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    spamgourmet.com is a fairly popular email forwarding/filtering service, too.

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  • ScroffusScroffus Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Resilient wrote: »
    10minutemail.com is an interesting service. You get an email addy for 10 minutes with which you can only receive email. Not sure if that's something you would be looking for.

    Great for putting in an email for things where you just know spam will be coming.

    Seems the same as mailinator.com

    You can put in whatever@mailinator.com for an email address anywhere then log onto mailinator with that name to pick up the email. Comes in really handy sometimes.

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  • T. J. Nutty Nub T. J. Nutty Nub Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Scroffus wrote: »
    Resilient wrote: »
    10minutemail.com is an interesting service. You get an email addy for 10 minutes with which you can only receive email. Not sure if that's something you would be looking for.

    Great for putting in an email for things where you just know spam will be coming.

    Seems the same as mailinator.com

    You can put in whatever@mailinator.com for an email address anywhere then log onto mailinator with that name to pick up the email. Comes in really handy sometimes.

    It'a pretty funny to put in random emails and just see what the subjects are

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