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AOL Launches Free Webmail Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the aol-instant-email dept.

kmilani2134 writes "America Online is moving into the Web-based e-mail market on Wednesday by tying e-mail into its popular AOL Instant Messenger service. Called AIM Mail, the service marks AOL's latest attempt to reposition itself as a broad portal rather than a subscriber-based service. It also will compete more directly against Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division and Google Inc., all of which have battled over Webmail storage and features over the past year. This was covered by both eWeek and InternetNews.com. Of note, they seem to have incorporated the Mailblocks spam filtering and tracker addresses into their service. It will be interesting to see how long before these new 2 GB accounts are inundated with spam."

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  1. Open Mind by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will be interesting to see how long before these new 2 GB accounts are inundated with spam.

    It's good to see you're approaching this with an open mind. Criminy.

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    Comment of the year
  2. AOL? by mboverload · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know about you, but anyone that gives me an AOL address is immediatly put below me in my mind.

  3. Won't be too bad by iosmart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I hear GMail uses something where if two users have the same message, it'll only save one copy of it on the servers. If AOL is using this kind of system, it won't hurt them at all to sell the email addresses of people...because their servers will only keep one copy of the message! :)

  4. Re:@aim.com vs @netscape.net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What, and type five more characters? Not me. Never. No Way. Uh-uh.

  5. Yoda says by Che+Guevarra · · Score: 3, Funny

    lost they are. Attempting to regain market share they are. Hmmm, desperate they are.

  6. IMAP Settings by Uneasysilence · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone know the IMAP settings?

  7. What happened by Omkar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google: Let's start our own free email service to compete with Yahoo and MSN. We'll give people 2GB of storage to get their attention, and hopefully, we'll become a larger part of their internet experience. Oh, and being Google, let's make our system work far, far, better than most college email systems.

    AOL: ME TOO!!!11!!1!

  8. You mean like this? by lullabud · · Score: 2, Funny

    4848
    <ohm> damn
    <ohm> FUCK
    <ohm> DAMN
    <ohm> i was just in an AIM convo with a chick, and my grandmother's window pops up
    <ohm> FUCK
    <ohm> i go like this to her
    <ohm> "i want to suck on your clit"
    <ohm> FUCK