Miscellaneous Resources

EMail Bargains

AKAMail lets you inexpensively keep the same permanent Internet email address even if you change providers

Mail.com (web email and other services for a fee)

OmnInfoTech provides email forwarding, too

NetAddress is a free mail forwarding service which will allow you to keep the same email address "for life," as they say

Bigfoot for Life, which is similar to NetAddress, gives you a free lifetime email forwarding address

Get My Mail! provides email aliases and more

PrivacyX (free encrypted email)

GMX (web-based email with some nice features - like automatic vacation replies)

Everyone.net personalized email addresses

Vanity email from NetIncome

Hear your email over the phone for free (from College Club)

Netscape WebMail

ZDNet Mail (web-based)

2hb Mail (web-based)

Spacemail (web-based)

Web-based email from HotBot

Free personalized (by name) web email from Nameplanet.com

Web-based email from Visto

Free vanity email from FlairMail

Free web-based email from iMail (a Russian service - English-language site)

Web-based email using first names from FirstName.com

Personalized web-based email (and pages and pages of links) from the 4anything Network

Web-based email from Conk! (also web space)

Web-based email from personalmail (with POP3 available for free)

Web-based email from Star Trek Mail

Disinformation Email (web based)

Go Network Mail (web based)

Web-based email from ProntoMail

Web mail from Mark A. Foster Services!!!

Web mail from fsmail (Freeserve)

Web mail Internet Portal (with the option to set up your own email service)

Web-based email from FreeAccount

Email (and URL) forwarding from Easy.to/REMEMBER

Web-based email from OperaMail (makers of the Opera browser)

Populus POP3 email (including SMTP access)

Web-based email from FlairMail (with numerous vanity domains)

Mail Net (email forwarding service)

Yes, POBox is yet another email forwarding service

PlanetAll offers free email forwarding and more

Free Email Address Directory

NETBird email forwarding

Free web email, conferencing, and more from MrPost

Friendly E-mail (POP3 with numerous domains)

Email and URL forwarding from MailBank

gURLmAIL (web-based email just for "gurls")

Email and URL forwarding from Her Office

HushMail (claims to be the only web email with end-to-end security)

Email and URL forwarding from His Office

Free email forwarding from Wonder-Net

IName is still another mail forwarding service - with some cool vanity names

SuperNews

YouSendIt (send huge files)

HotMail was the original web-based free email service

But now Easypost also offers web-based free email

So does Postmaster (If you want an email address in the UK, this is where you go.)

And so does GoPlay

Yep. Yahoo! Mail does, too

Well, it's called PopMail (another web-based service), but you can't use a POP3 mail client.

And, so does QuikMail

Coolmail also offers web-based email

Supernews offers free web-based email and Usenet newsgroup reading (no posting)

So does Eudora Web-Mail

So does Eudora Web-Mail

VanityEmail

And as if that weren't enough, so does MailExcite

Yikes! So so Backpackers.com Mail Stop

As does FreeMAIL (UK only)

And AmexMail (from American Express) does it, too

So does DejaNews

AOL NetMail does, too - but only for AOL members

Well, the Chug-a-lug Club also offers free email accounts, so I felt duty-bound to include them

And, hmmmm, how could I not include CheatWorld?

Links to places to get free email, and much more!

Traveltales

Freemark is another company that will provide you with a free email account

Wowmail also offers free web-based email

MyEmail.Net offers an anonymous email forwarding service

NetForward does both email and URL forwarding for free

My Own Email (formerly StarMail) is a vanity email service which lets you pick from a number of different names *after* the "@" ;-)

ForeverMail also offers vanity email and URL forwarding

EMUmail offers a free web interface for your POP3 account

Free E-Mail (links)

Treasure Island's ratings of different free email services

CNET's reviews of free email services

Free Usenet Newsgroup Access

Deja

Newzbot - (links)

Spaceports

Remarq

Talkway

Ventriloquism

The Ventriloquism Home Page with links galore

The Dummy Doctor with links

Scotty's Vent Figure Registry

The Ventriloquist Ring (part of the Webring system)

Ventriloquist Chat Room

On a Stick: The World of Jeff Dunham

LovikWorld's ventriloquist figures ("dummies" for the uninitiated)

The Ventriloquism Email List

Video instruction in ventriloquism

Games

Play various games with other folks logged into the site

Play chess online with other users

MindWarp

MPlayer (online games and chat)

MPlayer Africa (online games and chat)

Gamemaster.net

MPlayer Europe (online games and chat)

PrizeGames

Riddler.Com also features online games

Email-Lotto (Free)

Online Entertainment (also chat)

Games & Giveaways

Uproar

Micro PI (online private investigation game from Microtel Inns)

The Track (virtual horse racing)

Chat Sites

The Webchat Broadcasting System (revival)

The Talk chat site (free)

Go Chat!

Lycos Chat

ClubVDO (audiovisual chatting on the computer)

Chat City

Chathouse

FreeTown

Firefly

Talk City (free chat)

Alamak (free chat)

Tim's Doors (for chat rooms)

Zero's Backdoors (for L'Hotel and GeoCities)

The Superplex Chat Center

GoldQuest (several Java chat rooms)

The Palace (It uses Virtual Worlds Chat Software. Last time I checked, some of the chat links didn't work.)

SinglesNET has a chat area once you join (no charge)

A cool collection of chat server links

Mark A. Foster's Chat Page (free)

Firefly Java Chat Page (free)

Largest Chat Index on the Net (That's what they call it. I don't know if it is the largest or not. <grin>)

100hot's list of chat sites

The Globe's chat rooms

The Grey Jacket's Chat Site

Online Discussion Forums

100hot's list of chat sites

Groups @ AOL

SALON Table Talk

ForumOne (a search engine for online discussion forums)

Virtual Bookstores

alt.bookstore

Lifeline Printing Bookstore (reprints of "Christian" titles)

Zubal Books (used and antiquarian)

Walmart has, perhaps surprisingly, a large selection of books

AddALL (comprehensive searching of multiple dealers)

Search for Used and Out-of-Print Books
Author:
Title:
Keyword:

AddALL (just used books)

BookFinder.com (similar to AddALL for used books)

Best Web Buys (including books)

Page One Bookstore

International League of Antiquarian Books

Brecht Books (alternative topics)

mySimon: Find the Lowest Prices for Books

BookFinder.com (find new, rare, and used books)

AllBookstores: Find the Lowest Prices for Books

Bookchecker: Find the Lowest Prices for Books

Walmart Books

FetchBook.Info (compare book prices)

Dealtime (compare book prices)

isbn.nu (compare book prices)

Epinions (compare prices)

Advantage Book Exchange (used and rare - including search of network)

Strand Book Store

Buy.com

Amazon.com

Alibris (used and rare)

Borders.com (now with Amazon.com)

Barnes & Noble

NetStoreUSA.com

Chapters (Canada)

Powell's Books (new and used)

BookCloseouts.com

Overstock.com (books and more)

Harvest Book Company (out of print)

BookServe.com

Tattered Cover

Soulmate's Bookshop (new age)

New Beginnings Bookstore (new age)

Equinox Books and Occult Supplies

Sacred Wisdom Bookstore (new age)

Insight Metaphysical Books

Shambhala Publications

Kessinger Publishing's Rare Mystical Books

Alif Publishing (Sufism)

Open Group

Out-of-Print Bookstore

Iranbooks Bookstore

Kazi Publications (Islamic books)

East West (new age and metaphysical)

Mandrake of Oxford

Intertain.com

Online Dating

One and Only Singles Service

Cupid's Network (online dating service and list of affiliates)

JP Enterprises

SingleSites.com

LoveMe.com

FriendFinder

Lonely Hearts

MeetMeOnline

Concerned Singles

Acquaintance Agency `St. Petersburg'

WebMatch (a free online dating service)

GoodCompany.com

Match.Com

Internet Paging

Magazines

New Scientist

Feed (semi-highbrow)

Stanton Peele, etc.

The Stanton Peele Addiction Web Site

The Stanton Peele Addiction Web Site (mirror site)

About Twelve Step (Anonymous Groups)

Cliff Walker's Recovery Watch

Internet EMail Lists (Running Your Own)

Cool List is completely free!

Majordomo

Google Groups

Your MailingList Provider

MailingLists.Org

Topica

ListService is another site which offers the opportunity to run email lists

Create a free radical left email list through Riseup.net

Run your own Majordomo email list from ListBox

Free and paid mailing list services from Bravenet

SmartGroups is a free listserver through which you can set up your own email list

WebPromote Engage (free)

Web Site Post Office (free and commerical versions)

ZebuList (still another free one)

Another one from Listserve.com

Still another one from L-Soft (makers of Listserv)

ListsNet automates list subscriptions and has a directory of email lists

eScribe offers a free archival service for mailing lists

VP Mail also offers free Internet list creation

Esosoft's Mailing List Service

Email lists from theglobe.com

Run your own list through SparkList

Run your own list for free from SpiritWeb (minimum ten people required)

YourMailingListProvider.com (start free newsletters with no ads)

Free email lists from Yahoo! Groups

Free email lists from Bravenet Web Services

Riseup listserv service

Mailman (free listserver software)

SVlist allows you to set up a list on your own server

Lyris's server is similar to SVList

Internet EMail Lists (Existing Ones)

E-Mail Discussion Lists

DemocracyGroups (a directory of social change email lists and forums)

Yahoo's directory of lists

Reference.COM (archiving of Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists)

Lists Net: The Internet Mailing Lists Network

Domain Whois

BetterWhois

Whois.net

WhoisQuery.com

Whois.cc - for numerous TLDs (including international domains)

CheckDomain.com is the most exhaustive whois I have found

DomainCheck.com (similar to CheckDomain)

The Big Whois

Whonami Global Internet Name Search

Other Sites

The Information Highway

The Unpublished Author (free online publishing)

Platonic Dualism

Create your own personalized online newspaper!

Freenets and Community Networks

The List (all sorts of information on Internet Service Providers)

KMMC's Multimedia Greeting Cards (free)

Send a free email postcard through MaxRacks

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Number Search

Madghoul.com (a fascinating site)

Another Mersenne Prime number page

eBay's AuctionWeb

First Auction

Essential Links

The American Success Institute

HandiLinks (a wonderful resource!)

Nerd World: Self Improvement

Self-Improvement Online

Personal Development Central

WebSeed (a content network consisting of over 1,500 websites)

Ding! (The People Browser)

Home of the Judy Garland Internet Fan Club

If you are moving, Rent.Net may be able to help

Wayne VanWeerthuizen's Homepage

Venture Capital Resource Library

Maps On Us (navigation)

Mozdev.org (free hosting for Mozilla/Gecko projects)

The Big Eye (links to good sites)

Lulu (self-publishing)

Wendy's Wonderful World of Oz

PageWise (thousands of free articles)

FidoNet

Instant Runoff Voting

Online Translation from Babylon.com

The Dialectizer (Convert English text to any of several comic dialects)

Oneview (manage bookmarks and favorite places online)

United States Political Parties (scroll down)

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Meetup (schedule local face-to-face meetings)

Audition Spotlight

Homoeopathy

FreeShell.org (free and not-free shell access)

StrategyPage

Wilderness Therapy & Treatment (consumer protection information)