Chiming in, late, with a comment on Earthlink. Long story short, they are big fans of the philosophy espoused in the tune Hotel California.
Long ago, and far away, long before most mortals had discovered the internet and associated time sinks, I had personal and work-related email accounts. When I traveled, I used dial-up to access a “server” which maintained my account. I had an AOL account since the first month or two of their operation and used that both for personal mail and as a relay for work messages, but their remote dial-in sites were concentrated in large urban areas and I could not see racking up long distance phone charges just to read my emails from my hotel rooms. Earthlink provided a solution. I don’t recall if they had more server nodes scattered around or how it worked, but with Earthlink I could dial-in with a local call from pretty much anyplace in the country. Fast-forward a few years, the web was more robust and had a broader reach. I looked around, asked here on PDML, and Mark suggested a local to him company that he had favorable dealings with. My trouble free mail and web server business has been with pair.com ever since. Meanwhile, I didn’t need Earthlink. The only way to cancel an Earthlink subscription is to call them. I called. Or at least tried to call. Eventually I actually was able to talk to someone. They convinced me to stay with them, offered a much reduced monthly fee, fewer features. A few years later I came to my senses, realized I was paying a much reduced monthly fee for a resource I was not using and I called them. And again cancelled my subscription. And it took 10-15 minutes of high-pressure salmon haranguing me about how I really should leave the family. When I was actually using their system I never had the issues with Earthlink that John has had. And given the financial contributions I have made to them, I am surprised they haven’t grown and matured. But I am pleased to have wriggled free of their entanglement. stan > On Jul 8, 2019, at 9:19 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > I saw one reply from Cotty in my Yahoo inbox. > > I have had NO email from PDML in either my Earthlink inbox or Yahoo inbox > since that message at 16:25 08Jul2019. > > Otherwise, NO email from PDML in either inbox. I'll see if this one shows up > in Yahoo. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
