Where can I get a free email account (not gmail or yahoo)?

@chienfou Thanks! Dang, no good. I guess I’m going to have to use something more obscure. Or get a time machine to get my choice before the 173 people currently using it.

@chienfou Just to clarify, the former does not count as two different accounts w/ gmail. That is to say, if you register clamchowder@gmail.com, I cannot then go and register clam.chowder@gmail.com. It can’t be registered, and anything sent to the latter will still go to you.

@chienfou What I want is Dragonfly. Yeah, too common, I know. But that’s how I sign my 3d work, with a dragonfly charm or imprint. I want something so simple I can say it to someone in a restaurant or in line at the grocery store and they’ll remember it later. Tacking on initials or numbers reduces that memorability.

@moondrake
The common words are all gonna be gone.
You can try dragonflyelpaso or something similar perhaps.

(Think about privacy here!!! Any free email may be scanne by the provider for keywords, I’m guessing.)

@moondrake
Dragonflyjewelery
JewelerybyDragonfly
Add extra words rather then obscure @name

@cf1 I enjoy GMX

@cf1 I’ve had several e-mail addies at mail.com for many years. The fun thing is that there are about 200 or so domain names you can use to set up an e-mail address, or you can have several and route them to the same inbox. Check the Mail.com domain names here.

Then I forward all of my mail.com inbox stuff to my gmail address, because it has better virus/trojan detectors.

@rockblossom Hey, thanks, I got one!

@rockblossom That’s good advice, but I rarely check my Gmail as it’s all stuff from Google. Gus I could change that, though.

@medz Same as I use. Live Mail/Outlook/Microsoft Account. All the same.

@medz Thanks, I was afraid that was going to be the case. My dba business name is stupid long and not at all memorable Falcon Fantasyworks. The dragonfly@something.com would be easy to remember.

@moondrake I would definitely recommend going the route of registering a domain (they’re pretty cheap), even if it’s an abbreviated version. Might I suggest something like falconfw.com (which is available)

It’s much easier to do sales@falconfw.com, returns@falconfw.com etc then it would be to do falconfwsales@gmail.com if you ever plan on utilizing more than one email address.

Plus, if you register the domain, you prevent somebody else from taking it and using it for who knows what. Even having a simple redirect to your site (Etsy/Facebook etc) to find you via a search may be beneficial.

It’s also more professional when on a business card etc

@lichme I agree. It’s way more professional with a custom domain name. Anytime I see a gmail account used for a business it invokes image of a one-man show sitting in a garage. Even if that is the case, it’s not necessarily the image you’d want customers to think of.

@ruouttaurmind <aol, snicker>

@mfladd I have a client who uses AOL for email. We were having issues with AOL filtering out emails with certain message content, or larger attachments. We asked her to get an alternate email addy. She obliged. Hotmail.com.

She also uses a Blackberry.

@ruouttaurmind that brings back memories. I had AOL back in the days of dialup. When I found out they filtered content, I switched to Earthlink.

@moondrake At least back then they didn’t filter email messages based on content. Now, if you write the wrong words they filter the whole message. Not even placed in the Spam can, just gone forever. Do this a couple times and they blacklist sender. Frustrating!

@medz
The prob with that is that if you change isps you lose the email address. : (

@medz I’m with Time Warner, now Spectrum.

True. I never used ISP email, but I see a lot of people that do. An old ISP of mine actually dropped their email service along with their website hosting. They basically said, “Sorry, bruh. Go find a free service elsewhere.” Lucky for me I only used the site hosting for small file transfers at the time.

@f00l I thought that would happen when I fired ATT, so I got a yahoo account as a bridge to copy, paste and forward to till I got my Time Warner address. ATT never closed my account and I never bothered opening one with Time Warner.

@moondrake looks like it would be a spectrum.net email, but I can’t tell if they let you pick the username/address.

@medz Since they won’t let me change the long, nonsensical alphanumeric password on my router I didn’t bother with their email.

@moondrake Wow. That’s surprising. I see that they have a way to look up your wifi password on their site. In other words, if your spectrum online account gets hacked, they’ll know how to log into your home network too. (assuming they’re near your router) I would not like that at all.
Are you able to log into the router’s setup page? http://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/configuring-wireless-security/
I’m curious if the wifi password options there are disabled.

@medz Don’t know, I’m not too techie inclined. When they told me it couldn’t be changed I took them at their word. Since I am not skilled at this and don’t understand a lot of the terms and ramifications I tend to avoid things like that. I am too dependent on the internet (phone, tv, and internet) to risk screwing it up and having to wait and maybe pay to get it fixed.

@medz Legacy TWC areas are still using their @ twc, @ roadrunner, @ *.rr.com addresses, they haven’t switched to Spectrum domains yet. But I would not use them for something like this, if for no other reason than what @f00l pointed out about lock in.

@medz This is why I use my own router. I don’t want them controlling that.