That account goes away if you change providers or move and have to change providers. Plus it enables a lot of impersonation. And when you upload any attachments, you are certain it gets to your email host anyway.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 <[email protected]> wrote: > Why all this web mail stuff? Doesn't anybody actually use their ISP's mail > servers with an actual mail client sending and receiving the mail on their PC > anymore? > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT - disappearing responses > > Mike Schwab wrote: > >>Yahoo gets the Yahooties every few months. Messages back up until some >>server is rebooted, then you get weeks of posts all at once. Really bad for >>yahoo groups. > > Ouch. Ouch. Ouch! One more reason why I don't use yahoo. Perhaps it is just > me, but I'm not a 'yahoo'. ;-D > >>I much prefer gmail as my message handler. > > For myself, to avoid posting problems, I prefer using the list serv web page > where I can do my postings. [1] > > To Scott: > Try using another method of posting, for example another e-mail address or > directly on list serv? Can you do that? > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
