“Although the change from at meaning ‘for a given amount per’ to at meaning ‘in a specified (electronic) location’ comes fairly naturally to English speakers, it does not for native speakers of other languages, for whom neither ‘at’ nor @ meant anything until e-mail came around.”

“A wedding of linkable Web pages and regular email, HTML email is a growing medium for Internet communications, and it’s getting easier to use. HTML email lets you surf an email in-box with a browser to receive daily newsletters, weather updates, gardening tips, or whatever, and to send things like homemade picture postcards to your friends - all with the look and feel of Web pages.”

“Your email address is precious to you. It’s yours. It shouldn’t be a commodity for spammers and other marketing types to use, abuse and sell to each other. How many times have you filled in your email address into a ‘More Information’ box, only to find yourself plagued soon afterwards with ‘Special Offers’ and ‘Get Rich Quick’ scams? Are you fed up with this abuse? I know I am! It’s time to reclaim your mailbox, and mailexpire can help you. It’s a very simple idea. We’ll set you up with an auto-expiring email alias. You choose how long you want this alias to last for — anything from 12 hours to a month.”

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Don’t want to register to get xBlog’s daily visual thinking linking in your email? Then just get notification of the xBlog’s daily visual thinking linking in your email. Perfectly logical.

“This web site is provided as a public service; however, CIAC does not have the resources to investigate and/or confirm every hoax currently circulating the Internet. CIAC appreciates input on questionable hoaxes, but we are not able to respond back to each e-mail message. You can help eliminate ‘junk mail’ by educating the public on how to identify a new hoax warning, how to identify a valid warning and what to do if you think a message is a hoax.”

“Beware the plague of chain letters, e-mails which pass from person to person, growing in size and spreading misinformation along the way. This site explains the dangers of e-mail forwards and offers frightening examples of them. You will read about how people are deceived, bandwidth is clogged and your friends are terrorized — that is, if you dare.”

“Kat Nagel sent this terrific piece to the EARLY-M mailing list in December 1994. It is the best description of the social development of a mailing list I’ve read. Every list seems to go through the same cycle…”

Make your own mailing lists here, or subscribe to hundreds of others. Community tools (calendar, file storage, etc.) as well.

“Free email list services.”

“Free email list services.” They put text ads in the messages now.

An awesome site. If you’re looking for an email list and it’s not listed here, it probably doesn’t exist. They’ve also got a Usenet newsgroups directory and an IRC chat directory.

“listTool.com is a free tool that makes the process of subscribing, unsubscribing and sending commands to 827 mailing and discussion lists (in categories such as law, art, music, computers, news, business, humor and more) easy. You don’t have to remember which commands to send to some obscure e-mail address to subscribe or unsubscribe.”

Allows you to send mail to yourself or others at a specified date and time in the future.

This free reminder service will send you an email whenever you specify. Use it to remind yourself of important dates and events — from deadines, meetings or trips to birthdays or anniversaries.