Hi Alan.
Thankfully, I have a very good and understanding isp so I'm happy for now
but thanks for the advice - hopefully, I won't need it (fingers crossed :-)
Sandy.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alan S. Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [pop3] Pegasus Multiple Accounts
> On 24 Mar 2001, at 12:31, schergs wrote:
>
> > Thanks to those of you that answered me. I actually got the reply I
> > was looking for in a later list message that was received so thanks
> > for that. I'm just following the conversations for now. I have just
> > had to change email addresses and was having trouble finding any pop
> > mail that was available and was thinking of trying pegasus as opposed
> > to outlook. I'm just tossing a few things around for now. I also have
> > a newsletter which I mail through my own isp and using outlook so I
> > have to be careful of not damaging that, too. Basically, I'm shopping
> > around for ideas right now. I do pay for whatever online time I use so
> > web mail, despite the fact that I don't like it, is not even an option
> > for me.
>
> Let me suggest a non-topical idea here...long, long ago in a galazy
> far away, I used to distribute a zine through my ISP using my email
> client to send out the newsletter. My ISP did not like me doing that
> much at the time, but they never said anything. Today's ISPs are a
> lot more strict and aggressive about these matters and you could lose
> your account if you cause too much strain on the service's mail
> servers. Of course, it would depend on the size of your list, but it
> might grow. Back in those old days I had a zine that began with 1
> subscriber and it grew to over 2000. Something like that really can
> hog the resources of your service provider for things in which it was
> not intended.
>
> Fortunately we all have an inexpensive alternative today that I did
> not have back then -- namely free mailing list hosts. For example,
> if you have a Yahoo account, you can quickly set up a mailing list
> with many cool features that you would never have by manually
> distributing your list. Plus your provider will thank you, believe
> me. :-)
>
> Yahoo mail accounts can be used as remote pop3 accounts, so with any
> Yahoo account you can get a lot of things for your money -- which is
> nothing. :-)
>
> Check it out, Sandy. :-)
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/
>
>
> Alan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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