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Searching for a better free e-mail.
Byline: Stanley A. Miller II
People who have never considered using Web-based e-mail will be tempted by Google's new Gmail.
Traditional free e-mail accounts from Web portals typically offer little space for storing messages and are usually littered with advertisements.
Many savvy computer users exploit these free e-mail services by using them as decoys for spam or as unchecked ghost accounts when they need to supply a verifiable e-mail address to access online communities or forums.
Travelers also find Web-based e-mail useful because they can check their e-mail from any Internet-connected computer with a Web browser, whether they are at a friend's house or at a public terminal. Because Web-based e-mail is stored online, users can access their messages from anywhere as long as the site is up.
Google's free e-mail service drew a lot of attention from the technology industry when it was announced in April because of the 1 gigabyte of space that each user is given to store messages.
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