True but GEOCITIES also offers the option to use POP3 to retrieve your
mail.  mail.geocities.com is where I retrieve mine and never even heard of
WWW service until now! :)

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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Alperin, Glenn wrote:

> Hotmail is exclusively reading e-mail through a web page.  It also has the
> added benefit of instant translation of binary files recieved on accounts
> there, or ability to download those files if you are not on an adequate
> browser.  BVeing as I can not recieve binary files at my main address,
> [log in to unmask], without them becoming impossible to download and
> translate because of the strangef mail headers which get attached to my
> mail there and because the e-mail suystem is totally inadequate for
> downloading files effectively anyway, hotm,ail is simply a better choice
> for those purposes.  I wouldn't use hotmail for anything else though as
> password security is a big issue for me and to get into hotmail, or
> geocities or many other free e-mail providers, you fill out a form which
> contains the password attribute hiding the password from your screen but
> sending it over the web in straight text format with no encryption.  It is
> the same with geocities as well.  Both use the web as their gateway to
> e-mail.
>
> Glenn
>