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Too much downtime

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2 Mar 1st, 2001 

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Nice address, customisation of account, POP retrieval for account consolidation

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Long load time, access difficulties

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I'm clearly going against popular opinion here but I don't think Excite provides that great an email service.

I have tried several different email providers over the years. My needs are simple: a simple address, adequate file space and reliable access.

Sadly, Excite have let me down on the latter. I have experienced a number of problems accessing my excite account. It takes a long time for the site to load - which is unusual for one of the big search engines. This is irritating but bearable because the email account is reasonably customisable. You get the usual address book, mail signature, file/attachment upload, POP retrieval plus you can chose cute "new mail" icons.

What has seriously annoyed me is the amount of "downtime" I have experienced. I have had a number of problems trying to access the site (inbox.excite.co.uk) nevermind logging into my account unlike zWallet (www.zwallet.com). While I do accept that this is not a frequent occurance and that all sites must have some maintenance time, I think that, in Excite's case, this seems to be excessive. There are no obvious warnings when the site will be down unlike Netaddress (www.netaddress.com).

I no longer use this email account but unfortunately I can't even set up an autoresponder to tell people where to contact me! I am currently using zWallet and I won't be using Excite again.  

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andyev 01.03.2001 20:52

Quite right too, I also used to have an Excite hotmail account but access times on it are ridiculous.



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