Email is the only way to communicate! At least it seems that way sometimes. I have never been good at letter writing, but think nothing of dashing off another email. The only problem is finding enough time to read all of the newsletters that I receive! Then of course there is the 'Spam' mail. Even if you are careful about who you give your email address you probably will still get Spam in your mailbox eventually. There are whole web sites devoted to Spam mail & how to avoid it.
Email clients
There are a lot of email programs available, some are free and some are shareware. For the un-initiated, shareware programs are available for download, but are usually time limited. If you want to keep using the program, you have to buy it. This is a good way to try a program before shelling out your hard earned dollars. If you don’t like it, you don’t pay for it. Just uninstall it & try another program.
Probably the most used program is Outlook Express. It comes free with Windows. OE (Outlook Express) has a lot going for it. It can be configured to get mail from Hotmail, CompuServe and any web-based email that uses POP & SMTP protocols. You can set message rules to move email into specific folders, setup profiles for different users and customize the way you view email. Unfortunately, most viruses also target OE users.
If you have Microsoft Office on your system, you have access to probably the most comprehensive email client available, Outlook. It has all of the features OE has, plus so much more. Outlook has a calendar, (I use this a lot), reminders, Journal, Notes, filters and etc. Unfortunately, most viruses also target Outlook users. I am not an expert for Outlook, for expert Outlook (and the rest of MS Office) I refer to Linda Johnson. Linda is the best!
Eudora is another great email program.
Since Qualcomm, the maker of Eudora decided to no longer support Eudora, it became open source in 2007 and is no longer be available for the paid version. If you are
currently running an older version of Eudora in the Sponsored Mode, you should update to the latest version ASAP. Download Eudora 7.1.
You can still get the sponsored mode, now it will have no ads.
There are a number of other email programs available. Pegasus Mail, The Bat, Mozilla Thunderbird,
and several more are available to download. Some are free and some are
shareware. Pegasus uses very little resources so if that is important to
you, you may want to try it.
Nearly all of these programs have some great & not so great features. I use
OE (for my junk mail accounts), Eudora for various other accounts & Outlook for everything else.
Nearly all later versions of email clients can receive html.
Use Outlook with AOL e-mail, Microsoft tells you how!
Own your personal email address,
James Huggins tells you how!
About Yahoo Groups
I love my Yahoo Groups! Whatever your interests are, you can find a Group for it on Yahoo Groups. If you are interested in joining fun groups of people & learning lots of neat things, then you need to join Yahoo Groups. First go to Yahoo.com & signup for a free email account. Then go to Yahoo Groups.com join & start looking for a fun group to join. You can elect to read messages on the web or have them sent to your email address as individual emails. Some of the groups have a digest mode where you receive a lot of messages all in one email. Personally I don’t like the digest mode, you have to scroll through a lot of junk to get to the good stuff. You can be a ‘lurker’ and just read the posts or join in and contribute, whatever you feel comfortable doing.
I belong to about thirty groups. Some of them are very active & I have received as many as two hundred posts in one day from one group. Others are not so active and right now some appear to be in a dormant status, no posts at all.
Recently due to problems with Yahoo Groups, several of my groups have migrated to another group list, Freelists.org. This list does not bombard you with tons of advertising.
Urban Email Legends by James S Huggins
