There are freeware out there (www.betanews.com) that allow you to get it via POP3. Rumor is that will be free in the future and kncluded. Thank you, Eric Vogel http://shelluser.mvps.org http://msn.mvps.org http://www.msmvps.com/shelluser ----- Original Message ----- From: Cuffy10@xxxxxxx To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: [CTS] Re: Free GMail acct. In a message dated 2/25/05 12:08:29 PM Pacific Standard Time, mreid30@xxxxxxxxx writes: In short Joe, what are the pro's and con's of it. It's pretty much a simple old web based email account that you can access from anywhere you can get on the web. A spare account in case your email client crashes ! It's slower to get into than my AOL mail.... much like Outlook or OE. I've never tried Hotmail but I imagine it's similar to that too. And, the price is right for one gig of email storage space. No problem with a full mailbox.