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  1. Try uReach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Email Notification via SMS in the US?

    They let you do notifications a whole bunch of different ways, including SMS. You can get a free account or pay for one that will give you your own toll free number. http://www.ureach.com/

  2. Remember uReach? by Lagrange5 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Charging Does Help Yahoo Make A Profit

    The uReach service started in ca. 1999 as a pioneer of sorts in integrating free e-mail with free voice mail, and gave each signup a toll-free number and extension for voice messages.

    I signed up early on, and it didn't take very long to figure out that the actual quota (not alluded to in uReach's signup) was 30 MB. uReach's intention was to allocate most of the quota for voice mail, but that wasn't enforced, so my friends and I never used our uReach accounts for anything but e-mail.

    The 30 MB space was so generous (five times that of Yahoo Mail, whose 6 MB was generous then) that for about two years my uReach address was my "only" address. At one time I had archived about 24 MB worth of stuff, mostly attachments. In addition to e-mail, I was using my uReach account as a dirty kind of file transfer and storage system.

    Therein lies the problem for uReach. My friends and I were only a few of probably tens of thousands of uReach users who used the service for e-mail, file storage and transfer, and nothing else. uReach could not keep up with the increased usage and increased costs of providing the service. So eventually they had to start cranking the screws on its user base. First they yanked the toll-free access number, and I think the voice mail feature likewise disappeared. Then they offered a premium service with increased space (I think it was 100 MB!). Finally, they abruptly scaled back the free e-mail quota to 6 MB. So most of us who had 10, 15, or more MB of stuff on uReach were left in the lurch. Now I don't use uReach for anything except the occasional "yoo-hoo-I'm-still-here" login to ping the account.

    Point is, it's simply taken Yahoo longer to arrive at the economic possibility that free e-mail services may not be free forever.

  3. Re:This already exists... AT&T, UReach by papa248 · · Score: 1 · on A Number For Everything


    I recall several years back, AT&T (or was it MCI?) had a bunch of hoopla and commercials advocating a single telephone number that would ring your office, cell phone, home and fax all at the same time. Similar idea, one number. Now, I know that UReach.com has a similar, web-based service that will ring I think up to 4 numbers, in order, as well as take faxes and emails for you.

  4. Ureach.com by ende · · Score: 1 · on How Long Can The Free Services Stay Free?

    Ureach provided an excellent service. They would give you a toll-free number (877/888) and you would be able to get voicemail, read emails, listen to voicemail over the email, forward it. I had it for about two years with 60 minutes free per-month, and they decided to stop all free services. It's a shame that all these nice services that you get really used to end up closing down and try to charge you. I guess its just a big marketing scheme.

  5. Re:Go to voice mail by detritus. · · Score: 2 · on Home-Based, LAN-Capable, PC Phone Answering Machines?
    For about $5/month my local phone company will provide me with an ansering machine that will take a message when I'm on the phone with someone else. I can get these messages from any room in my house. (I think I can get them from elsewhere too, but now use a cell phone for all my voice calls so I'm not sure, byond what I see others doing)

    I had voice mail through Ameritech and was not too impressed. Something to keep in mind is limitations on outgoing calls. If you check your voice mail (by dialing a number) that's one call. Checking voice mail 2 or 3 times a day * 30 days can rack up a nice chunk of your available outgoing calls before getting surcharged.

    I personally wanted a very powerful voice mail system with tons of options. Ureach, which up until recently would give you a personal free 800 number and 60 minutes of call-time (the idea was to get you to use more than 60 mins and buy time). Now you have to pay for the service, but still for what you get it's dirt cheap, and the customization and features is by far the most impressive I have ever seen.

    What you could do is setup call forwarding with voicemail (which usually is a small fee per month) and have it forward on busy. This in essence is the same as the telco's voicemail, but instead you forward unanswered calls to your ureach number, instead of the telco's answering service. The nice thing is I usually setup ureach to notify me via email or IM that I have new messages, I log in, and play them back over the web..

    IMHO, this is the best, powerful call management provider i've seen. Monthly rates are incredibly cheap for what you can get (the most expensive plan is like $10/mo).



    - Slash
  6. Re:alias - problem by wesmills · · Score: 1 · on Are Public WHOIS Records Necessary?
    You can still keep information "private," while maintaining the ability to be contacted. Like so:

    Not very hard at all, especially since you'll give false information to the latter two groups in order to sign up, and the first one can't sell your info anyway.

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  7. What's so great about Hotmail? by plashdoy · · Score: 1 · on What Happened To Hotmail?
    For the life of me, I can't figure out why Hotmail is practically synonymous with Web-based email. First to market? Or first to popularize? While I have personally had no complaints or problems with Hotmail, I'd hardly place it in the upper tier of free Web-based email services. I think uReach and iName are superior if only because they don't divulge the originator's IP address. But Netaddress, Mail.com, Mailcity, OneBox, eMail, ExciteMail, GoMail, just about any portal or community site (Deja, Netscape, AltaVista), and any number of smalltime "boutique" services (like ApexMail, Flashmail or MyPad) will do the trick and often with better service or features. Or is MSN's Passport service really that compelling?

    Besides uReach, Yahoo!Mail is the only one I use for "real" mail because I'm hooked by the rest of Yahoo's personalized services, esp. Yahoo!Companion. The rest are just "throwaway's", good for pseudononymous transactions. If you're placing a lot of trust in Hotmail not to lose your data, or keep it secure, or always be available...I think you're being foolish.