GMAIL - completely free, FREE, FREEEEE
for you online talkers out there - now is a good time to introduce yourself to gmail - as not only is it the best online email service by 101 miles (download all attachments in one go, view pictures inline, automatic ordering of threads, colour coding emails, full search ability even through archived mails, 2.7 GB of storage so you can email contents of entire CDs to yourself and access from anywhere, etc..) it now has instant chat. Thats correct - your contacts now have a status icon that you can click on so you can chat to them - especially useful over a firewalled-to-the-hilt company network.
Go on, you know you want to.
Hurry I only have 98 invites left - who wants one ?
