I'm with you. I stopped using my ISP for e-mail back in the 90's after I had to change it seven times in one year (I hopped around a lot). After that, I was using Netbox.com to forward e-mail to my ISP of the month for $24 every 2 years. Once Gmail came out, I just pointed Netbox there until about a year ago when I just went straight to Gmail.
Now, I use Hotmail and Yahoo! for things that I sign up for that I know will be sending me stuff I don't want and Gmail for my real e-mail. I have no idea what e-mail address my ISP issued me and, unlike some of you, I never had a problem using an address from either Netbox or Gmail. Bill at thinkpads.com went through a spell of rejecting registrations from Hotmail/Yahoo!/Gmail, but I eventually talked him down off that cliff. I do, however, have my own domain name that's housed at the free version of Google Apps in case I ever want to do anything with it. Right now, I just use it as a backup site for e-mail I want to keep. Jane On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Aryeh Goretsky (home) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
