When my ISP suddenly went under, I used a free client for a while, and decided I'd pick up an excite.com email. After less than two weeks, however, I switched over to usa.net and have never looked back.

Perhaps because it's a popular site, the pages load slowly each time, and slogging through email is discouraging and annoying. In addition, it doesn't have a 'block sender' option, which makes getting rid of repeat spammers very difficult.

The worst part about it is the delay, however. I can count in multiple hours the amount of time between when my usa.net account picks up email and when the same piece of test email hits the excite mail.

The only redeeming quality about excite mail, that which makes it superior to others, is the fact that I can log on to a single page and, if so inclined, set a cookie so that all I have to do is open that page and, without manually logging on, see if I have any new mail.

This isn't my best review, I know. I'm not feeling particularly witty at the moment, as I've just gotten a piece of email that I could have really used about twelve hours ago when it was sent by someone who doesn't have my new usa.net account. As long as the facts regarding my experience are here, however, I don't feel particularly obliged to make you laugh over the fact that my email was wandering around in cyberspace unsupervised for hours.

Note: I had a couple of comments that Excite@home is not the free email service. This is the "excite" listed under "free email" (check the categories at the top of the page). I'm not quite sure where else to put it but here. If someone has a better idea, could someone please illuminate me? Thanks!



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