Attracting Users By Offering Free Email Accounts
It seems that the concept of offering email account for free in order to attract new users, like what Hotmail did, was over. Nowadays it is not too difficult to open a free email account on the internet. For instance, free web-based email account is like a standard feature of an ISP. What is offered now is more than that. Google, with Gmail, now provides 2,500 megabytes of free storage. Other big companies that provide similar offer are Yahoo! and Lycos. What is offered by Lycos is quite crazy, 3 GB of storage with no limit on the file sizes that you can send. With such crazy offers users do not need to remove any received email messages anymore. Just keep them for archiving purpose. Perhaps the old messages will be needed in the future. Actually what is interesting of a free web based email service is not just about storage capacity. There are other useful features that can be offered. For instance many webmasters use their free email accounts to filter spam messages before reaching their inboxes. In this case perhaps their main attention is how good the spam filtering tool of a web based email service.
