• SmartBot - We've had a number of visitors asking where they can get a free autoresponder. This is the best one we've seen. (An autoresponder is a service that automatically responds to any E-mail message sent to it with your custom message). Among other things, it's a helpful tool for Web site businesses. SmartBot offers loads of features, including unlimited automatic followups, an opt-in list builder and a Web-based control panel. (Note: signing up with this service means that you'll be receiving "occasional commercial E-mails," but you have the option to be removed from further mailings, without losing your account).
  
• MessageX - This innovative new free service lets you turn your pager, or your PCS phone, into a wireless messaging center. Thus, anyone with Net access can reach you, 24 hours a day, no matter where you are. With MessageX, anyone can send you a message, using your regular E-mail address.
  
• ListBot - This service offers a free mailing list for your Web site. ListBot's mailing lists allow you to send announcements and news to people who sign up. It uses a centralized database so that list members only have to enter their information once and can manage all of their subscriptions from a single Web site. This is the best free mailing list provider we've seen.
  
• FindMail - How'd you like to start your own E-mail list? The possibilities are endless: it could be for your family, your business, your high school class, your book club, etc. FindMail offers a solid, free Web-based E-mail list service. The lists can be public or private and all the lists are archived. Private list archives can only be viewed by list members.
  
• E-mail Remover - A free program that helps you avoid having to download unwanted E-mail and spam over your Net connection. It lets you preview mail headers and delete unwanted E-mail right away (without having to download the E-mail first). Helpful!
  
• Aristotle - This free service allows you to get governmental and political notices sent to you electronically, instead of by snail mail. As a result, you'll get fewer bothersome evening sales calls, and help the environment by receiving less junk mail. Aristotle also offers help in getting your name off of telemarketing lists, and allows you to select the types of messages you want to receive electronically (and be paid to read). Note: you must be a registered to vote in the U.S. to use this service.
  
• Find Me-Mail - If you've ever changed your E-mail address or anticipate doing so, then check out this free service. Find Me-Mail offers a place to post your new E-mail address for your old E-mail contacts. When you register with their directory and update your information you won't have to worry about losing contact with anyone again. Offered in English, German, Spanish and French.
  
• Mailto Encoder - Fight spam with this free service, which will format your E-mail address in a way that makes it unreadable by any E-mail extractor or search engine (the favorite tools of spammers).
  
• ONElist mailing list service - This is a full-featured mailing list system. It is easy to set up and moderate. This service is advertiser-supported and appends a small ad to the top of your newsletters.
  
• E-mail a recipe to a friend - Equal, the makers of the sweetener product, offer a free service that allows you to browse through their collection of recipes in "Jams and Jellies", "Recipe du Jour", and the "Recipe Collection" and if you find a recipe you enjoy, you can E-mail it to anyone.
  
• InfoBeat - Get personalized news sent to you via E-mail. Many categories, including finance, sports, ski snow reports, entertainment, weather and reminders. Formerly known as Mercury Mail.
  
• Auto.sig E-mail signature generator - This service generates personalized, lite-byte graphical signatures for use in E-mail. They also provide specialized signature generators for corporations that want to create a consistent signature style for their employees.
  
• CoolMail - An intriguing free service that allows you to listen to your E-mail from any POP3 account by phone. The only "catch" is that when you log in, you must listen to a message from their sponsor, before you can hear your mail messages. You can then respond using any of four pre-defined replies that you've created. You can also send audio replies to any other CoolMail member, and they can reply to you. The first 60 minutes of calling CoolMail each month is free. The basic service, CoolMail Bronze, has no monthly charge and includes toll-free access from anywhere in North America.
  
• Free targeted E-mail - This site is offering a deal in which you can send 100 targeted E-mails (not spam) to customers who have already expressed an interest in your goods or service.
  
• Free E-mail to fax service. - Not sure how much longer this service will be around---it allows you to send a free fax within a certain covered area. You may either send a fax through your Web browser or through your E-mail client.
• Faxaway - Give these people your E-mail address and you'll be able to take a "test drive" of their service (i.e., send a free fax).
• QuickEmail - Here's a nifty service if you have your own Web site. With this unique free service you can give your visitors the convenience of sending a quick E-mail from your page. Just paste the provided coding on your page and you're all set. Highly configurable and you can specify several options.
  
• Epost - If you send an E-mail to this service, they will print it out and post it to any street address in India. Your acquaintances in India can keep in touch, as well, by posting a letter to this service, which will in turn E-mail it to you.
  
• Cool List - - This service offers free Web-based mailing lists that are easy to set up. This one-of-a-kind service does have major problems, though. We have had many complaints about Cool List. From our own experience, we found the service was often too slow. Also, at times you might find your messages don't get sent out (or get sent out twice). Not recommended.
  
• Never Forget - Never forget another important date with this free service. Just type in the holidays and special events you want to be reminded of and get an E-mail reminder sent to you.
  
• GeoCities - This popular service gives you a free E-mail account, a home page and 3 megs of space for your Web pages. Go here for a complete roundup of the best free Web space providers on the Net.
  
• E-mail Reminders & Alerts - This is a roundup of E-mail "reminder" services that can help you organize your life and remind you of anything from changing your car's oil to birthdays and anniversaries.

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