# Which email provider is best? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 1, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218 "2000-05-01T03:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218/21 "2000-05-02T23:58:56Z")
oh, i am not sure if you are implying it serves to cover the “have several emails as a backup” but it wouldn’t because if they are all in the same server they all go down together. in fact you would be better off having several hotmail accounts as sometimes they are on different servers but the best is to have them totally separate. ---
**Author:** ![Abe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Abe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218/22 "2000-05-03T06:42:52Z")
I’m surprised that there is less mention of email providers other than the mega popular yahoo and hotmail. You can go to such sites as [http://www.emailaddresses.com](http://www.emailaddresses.com) and [http://www.fepg.net/index.html](http://www.fepg.net/index.html) in order to select an email provider. I find that [http://www.graffiti.net](http://www.graffiti.net) is an excellent provider. Reliable and sturdy 10 MB spam-free email, calendars, message boards (wacky stuff), mailing lists, web hosting, greeting cards, chat, and so on–eveything integrated into one account. Plus, I know all the **evolutionists** will love the announcement they have on the login page. The guys who run it have a sense of humour. It’s a short process to sign up. Frankly I don’t bother with the big providers like yahoo and hotmail. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218/23 "2000-05-03T14:46:45Z")
I got a free email account at [england.com](http://england.com) Interesting to have accounts in other countries. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218/24 "2000-05-03T15:32:31Z")
Oh, Yahoo!, definitely. I have both a Yahoo? and a Hotmail account, and Yahoo$ is definitely better. I get about 4 spams a day on hotmail, and have yet to receive one on Yahoo&. Also, I would like to second the remark that Yahoo# has access to many other services, and Yahoo% Messenger is fabulous. Connor ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218/25 "2000-05-03T16:40:32Z")
As already said, the amount of junk email you receive has nothing to do with the email provider, but has everything to do with where you leave your email address lying around. Try leaving a message with an email address in a newsgroup and see what happens. I’ve used Hotmail since 1996 and have no complaints. I didn’t like Yahoo because, at the time I was looking, it had a lot more images, adverts, Java and animations, and I was on a cheap, rubbish PC. Hotmail seems to run faster and I can leave the image loading switched off. I also use [disinfo.net](http://disinfo.net) as a junk account. Any sites requiring me to register an email address get that one to keep the junk mail separate from my Hotmail. About once a month I go in, skim over the messages and delete the lot. I’ve also tried [postmaster.co.uk](http://postmaster.co.uk) (British, not particularly good) and [020.co.uk](http://020.co.uk) (British, seems pretty comprehensive). ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218/26 "2000-05-03T23:25:51Z")
[Juno.com](http://Juno.com) has the smallest number of junk mails, you only get them from them. “oh, i am not sure if you are implying it serves to cover the “have several emails as a backup” but it wouldn’t because if they are all in the same server they all go down together” That might be true, with an ISP you are connecting right to your mail account but with [Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com), [hotmail.com](http://hotmail.com), etc, you have to go thru maybe ten computers on the way to your email account & all those computers have to be working. ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218/27 "2000-05-04T01:48:49Z")
Hotmail has two inboxes one for bulk mail and the other for regular. There are folders and room enough for me to store interesting things until I get them into the spare drive. I have a Yahoo address, too but seldom use it because Hotmail worked out so well. Jois [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-email-provider-is-best/18218.md?page=1)