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Canada: DisAbled Women's Network Canada
Expanding our Horizons: Tech 3 Project
How
to Get a Free E-mail Account
Would you like to
use e-mail to communicate with other women with disAbilities, organizations,
government agencies and advocacy groups but aren’t sure how to
go about it? It may be easier than you think. You
can take advantage of e-mail by using any of these free mail services
which are supported by advertising.
Here’s
what you need to take advantage of a free e-mail account:
If you don’t
have a computer, you need:
- Use of a computer
with Internet access via school, work, public library, community center
or organization, or friends and family;
- The ability to
use a web-browser (a program that allows you to read documents on
the world wide web, like Internet Explorer or Netscape); and
- To create an
account with any of the Web Access Free E-mail Providers listed below
If you have
a computer you need access to the Internet, you need:
- A web-browser
(like Internet Explorer or Netscape) to use a Web Access Free E-mail
Provider.
Free E-mail Providers:
Canada.com
www.canada.com
username@canada.com
Use only letters, numbers, and no spaces or periods for your username
Get your free
Canada.com email adddress at the following location: http://www.canada.com/members/index.aspx
Hotmail.com
www.hotmail.com
username@hotmail.com
Use only letters, numbers, and no spaces or periods for your username
Hotmail is a service provided by Microsoft; you are able to send/recieve
emails (including attachments) which total up to 1MB in size.
Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.ca
or www.yahoo.com
username@yahoo.ca or username@yahoo.com
Use only letters, numbers, and no spaces or periods for your
username
You can also send up to three attachments totaling 1.5 MB in any email
message.
Above information
was adapted from an online document provided by the Welfare
Law Center – LINC Project
275 Seventh Ave., Suite 1205, New York, NY 10025 – wlc@welfarelaw.org
Copyright 1998 Welfare Laaw Center.
Permission to reprint granted to non-profit groups provided credit
is given to the Welfare Law Center
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