But there's a 'gotcha' in that proposal as well, many subscription based sites won't allow you to sign up with a 'hotmail' or other similar account, not to mention, hotmail, gmail, yahoo and the likes are often filtered out automatically by spam filters.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aryeh Goretsky (home) Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 1:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Thinkpad] New Email address Hello, You might want to consider a free web-based email address, such as GMX, Google, Hotmail, Yahoo and so forth. Gmail and Hotmail (and probably the others) now allow you to download your messages using SSL-encrypted POP3/SMTP so you're no longer limited to being online with a web browser for access to your email. It can require a bit of effort to change contact information for listservs, web sites, notifying contacts and so forth, but after having to do that several times after my local cable ISP went through ownership changes, I switched over to a GMail account and now it doesn't really matter who my ISP is or where I access my email from. In the 5-6 years since I've made the change, I have encountered two organizations which had problems with my having a web-mail address. One of was a hobby web site (no big deal, there are plenty of these). The other was a software company who had some sort of oddball payment processor, which I got around by calling their sales department and placing an order that old-fashioned way. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:24 PM 2/21/2010, [email protected] wrote: >Message: 2 >Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:38:46 -0500 >From: "Bruce Markowitz" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] New Email address >To: "Anthony R. Gold" <[email protected]>, "Thinkpad Mailing > List" <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <009601cab378$ecb6f0a0$6601a...@x20> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >Because I have never had to pay extra for this one. It exists. I never >wanted to change my old address, that's why I kept paying the b*stards >$16.00 a month, just to keep that address. Which I no longer can do. So be >it. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
