CAN I SUBSCRIBE FROM FREE E-MAIL SERVICES (JUNO, HOTMAIL, YAHOO, ETC.)?
Yes, but there are minor problems. For example, Juno will not deliver the digest to you if it exceeds some rather small size (about 20 pages or so, technically 64K bytes, which they could also change any time). Lately the digest has grown to this size once a week or so. These “free” services also paste a tacky billboard on the end of your posts that the moderators must painstakingly edit off by hand. Think of a bumper sticker getting stuck on your car every time you park somewhere. This can make a lot of work for the moderators and consequently the digest quality can suffer. The costliest trouble with these services is the time the moderators expend just *explaining* the inevitable technical problems to subscribers asking, “what went wrong, where’s my digest!”. These services are not really “free” because of such overhead, despite the “easy-to-use, easy-to-sign-up” appeal. We recommend you use real Internet access and e-mail if you can afford it, although we’ll understand if you can’t.
