My ISP provides up to Seven Email accounts. I have dial up thru Outdoors Unlimited. Travel + Laptop + phone line and I am good to go from anywhere. So I do use the web based thru my ISP.
Thunderbird - email client of choice
Hushmail is another free Web based one I use, encrypted.
www.hushmail.com.
Now as an CIS/IT student, and I admit I am NOT where many of you are.
I am requred to use IE for some class material. I most often do this thru the College's IT Lab/ or IT Bldg.
When I had to have a free web based email client, ( required to find two and use for Internet Technologies) - I used hushmail and Lycos.
"Done seen" too many folks having trouble wth MSN, Yahoo, OE and all sorts of nasties. In fact , some folks will not accept these for a email addy for some class related matters.
Lycos? Who in the hell is gonna target Lycos? I guess I still have an account from that semester, never rec'd any spam or bunch of other stuff either from them. The MSN and Yahoo folks sure did.
I did let the husmail expire from that semester, I have another account now...
I have one instuctor that finally tried Firefox and Thunderbird...took notice of my Screen Shots - different from everyone elses..."what is that ...a 'fox'
?
My email he noticed too, we send in assignments via email to him instead of WebCT or Moodle...
For fun I sent him a Screen shot of T-Bird. "what is that supposed to be?"
"You do realize we [College] are sponsored by MicroSoft, Cisco, HP...?
I replied " we may be, don't mean I gotta use it except when required...and I did not personally receive any money".
I am not only the eldest student in his class, I am also the official 'Non-Conformist' of ALL the classes he teaches.
'Non-Conformist" is good for extra bonus points - right?