Here's a good page, I used to find FortuneCity. Watch out, it's a cookie factory.
http://www.polbox.com/b/brazil/free.htm
I have tried or looked at roughly a dozen different providers of free web-space, e-mail accounts, or rarely expanded services. They generally fall into two distinctive groups.
(1) foreign-based, idealistic, and hard to make progress in actually getting set-up
(2) American-based, full of banners and requiring demographic information, but well-automated
(These are merely generalizations, not meant to offend)
In addition, if it sounds like a really cool deal, it is probably full, and you'll never get set-up.
This service is a little unique, in that rather than providing POP3 accounts, it provides a web-based mail program. The menus are efficient and powerful, and the set-up is quick and easy.
They require some demographic type information, but physical address, alternate e-mail address and phone number are optional, and confidential via the agreement, anyways.
There may be concerns about security, with a web-based mailbox, but I'm using it for a casual address separate from my work E-mail.
Offers 3 megs of mailbox space, and supports receiving and sending of inserted files.
Includes Tag-Line with each sent mail.
This service provides 6 meg of web-space, requires a working e-mail address, and maybe physical address and/or phone number, but no demographic information.
Places a banner at the top of each page, and allows upload or editting of pages.
A Personal Favorite. Includes Crash Courses in HTML, JavaScript, and Java (I've only ever used the HTML).
I like to think of them as giving you more credit than a "For Dummies", but being more usably organized than an "In A Nutshell".
tripod : Something I just ran into...
That means you, buddy!