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This is related to the above feature article. When you are signing up for these various programs and you are not sure whether they will inundate you with all kinds of extra emails and pressure to buy this, upgrade here, whatever (and BigDaddy does this), I recommend that you use a free but fairly reliable email service, maybe even sign up for a new one just for this whole area of promotion. Then if you discover that they are snowing you under a huge drift of emails and you can’t shake them, (or ignore that email:) , then you can simply delete that email as you last resource, and go get a new one.

However, if you are signing up with several programs, you’ll want to carefully record off-computer as well as on it, your signup details;
your user ID, your password, and the email you signed up with. Some day you’ll be looking high and low for this stuff! Make sure it is where you can find it!

You and I might be called slow by some, but it’s better to be thorough, and to be able to continue without needless frustration. I have often avoided paying up, and just milked a program for all that I could get out of it free. That’s how I’ve educated myself!

Which emails do I recommend? If you can afford it, go for http://rmf.mailshell.com (About $30/year) or open a Yahoo or Excite webmail account. (Hotmail has a bad reputation for not getting through spam filters).