tag:ask-leo.com,2009://3/tag:ask-leo.com,2005://3.2294- 2009-11-18T17:55:45Z Comments for Free EMail - Should you? Movable Type 4.25 tag:ask-leo.com,2005://3.2294-comment:16081 Comment from Randy on 2005-03-01 Randy I like the "podcast" -- was a good way to get the info, since I could listen to it while doing something else at the same time (catch up on e-mail).

...Which I did from my own hosted e-mail. I agree it's very foolish to use a free account for anything mission critical, and am amazed to see people with their own domains using Yahoo or Hotmail accounts as their primary business contact method. If nothing else, it looks extremely unprofessional.

I think free e-mail accounts have their place, though; I have a couple, and use them as backups. Just today, I couldn't get a message through to a customer who was asking a question. No idea what the deal was with his system not accepting the mail, but I popped over to gmail and sent him a note, and he was quite glad to get a reply to his question. But I sure wouldn't use it as a primary address.

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