AOL Launches Free Webmail Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday May 14, 2005 @07:29AM 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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Re:Open Mind by PaulBunion · 2005-05-14 09:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Gmail's spam system seems to work pretty well. After a month, the stuff in the spamcan goes bye-bye. Or you can just go down there, select it all with a keystroke and dump it. Pretty nice...