If you use AOL for email...
...you may not receive the Bargain Hunter Daily Digest again. If an e-mail to an AOL address bounces even once AOL blocks the sender (in this case, me). Many accounts bounced over the holidays.
Normally, the Bargain Hunter Daily Digest can bounce three times before they are removed from the list. But AOL accounts are removed after just one bounce so you will not continue receiving emails from julia.scott@dailynews.com.
If possible, sign up again using a different email address. You can sign up for the free Bargain Hunter Daily Digest by plugging in your e-mail to the upper left corner of the Bargain Hunter.
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Daily News staff writer Julia Scott loves to find bargains on everything from groceries to Gucci. Her tips will help keep your hard earned cash where it belongs - in your pocket.
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Lucky for me I still get your emails. If I do notice not getting them i'll re sign up. Thanks and Happy New YEars
No problem for me either receiving your Bargain Hunter. Aol sure isn't what it used to be. Shame, they had a good thing going
AOL has historically tried to march to the beat of a different drummer, and there have always been problems with their e-mail service rejecting valid messages. There are so many other free and better options out there that it just doesn't make sense to use an AOL e-mail address as your primary one. Nor would I use the one that comes with your Internet Service Provider, because you never know when you might switch ISPs, which would mean a change to your e-mail address.
GMail from Google is quite popular, gives you a lot of storage, and their spam filter is pretty decent, although the lack of folders may put some people off. The Labels feature is supposed to supplant the need for folders, acting like tags, and the search capabilities of GMail is quite good if you understand how to use the special search operators in Google. The only other shortcoming is that you can't sort your messages in your inbox.
Yahoo! Mail is probably the only other one I would recommend. It has a more familiar-looking interface (similar to MS Outlook) with the ability to sort messages by sender, subject, date or size (which you can't do in GMail).
Hotmail (now Windows Live Hotmail) had a reputation for attracting a lot of spam. I don't know if that is still the case.
I found CrouchingBruin's comments interesting. I use both Gmail and Yahoo! Mail and can verify the accuracy of CB's comments. I have had problems in sending e-mails to my AOL contacts with Yahoo, less so with Gmail.