Excite was the first email service I used, and I found it take too long, I was happier with hotmail because in comparison it was much quicker. Has it changed in the last two years speedwise?

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>To: "Mark Dorm" , "vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM"
>Subject: Re: Hotmail is Slow Mail
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:29:13 -0500
>
>Excite is lickety-split! Easy, too!
>
>AB
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>Mark Dorm wrote:
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> > Hotmail is now so hideously slow I can't even enjoy reading the list anymore
> > because now I have to wait hours just to let the back button get back to the
> > list, and it hangs up when I'm scrolling down the list ect ect ect. The old
> > hotmail was good enough. The makers of the new hotmail deserve to be shot by
> > the people who lost money in the dotcom melt down.
> >
> > So can anyone recommend a fast email service? Or at least a tolerable one?
> >
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