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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:39:30
Message-Id: 48CA1CAD.4080600@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts. by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I
5 >> think. I think this will make it so that I never have to change email
6 >> addresses when I switch ISPs and will get the same service regardless of
7 >> who I connect to the internet with in the future. This is a long term
8 >> fix to my email switching issue.
9 >>
10 >
11 > Use Gmail rather. It's cheaper - can't get cheaper than free - and just works
12 > better. Plus their anti-spam measures are very very good. I get about 1000
13 > spams a month and average about 2 or 3 false positives and false negatives a
14 > month.
15 >
16 >
17
18 So Gmail has free POP access? I like to keep my email locally like I do
19 with AT&T. So far I have saved almost 27,000 emails from this list
20 alone. I'm a pack rat. LOL
21
22 I also found a interesting ISP. http://localnet.com/ I sent a email
23 to check on any time limits they may have. No reply yet but it was a
24 bit late when I sent it.
25
26 Dang I wish I had broadband out here. < sighs >
27
28 Dale
29
30 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts. Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>