I don't use the email services provided by my ISP. And didn't use those of my previous ISP.
Well I'd think Google is less likely to go out of business, or to suddenly see a need to charge for their email service, than Yahoo. And gmail seems pretty spiffy…I just use it for backup, mailing, lists, and the like, and it's fine for all that.
Or you could spend very few bucks and get a web/email/etc host and your own impressive/clever/enigmatic domain name. barkingtrout.com is taken (by you?), but barkingtrout.tv, .org, and a bunch of other variants are available… So is johnknowsavidandlikesdogs.com
As for your ISP, it looks like Charter acquisition of Time-Warner Cable will go through. And Charter has said to the FCC that they won't impose any data caps for at least three years.
Have fun...
jim feeley
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> On Aug 11, 2015, at 8:59 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I've set up a yahoo account and am porting. I believe a pure Yahoo account to be ISP agnostic like a gmail account. Does anyone feel strongly between a yahoo and a gmail account to keep from relying on a particular ISP.
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> ---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <dcdawkins@...> wrote :
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> John,
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> Having ported my stuff ISP to ISP a couple of decades back I swore an oath to never go through it again. So a few years ago once again I had to move. After investigating I made what hopefully was my last email address change to gmail. It has taken a while to get used to. I certainly do not use it as I really should, but I am happy.
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> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:55 PM, John Moore bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I was just informed by ATT that I exceeded the data limit of 150GB last month and that if it happened again I would be charged 10$ for an additional 50GB. I've never scrutinized the fine print on the contract but I get the feeling this is a new way of trying to squeeze more money out of customers. Does anybody know if this type of policy is something that has been adopted in recent years or has it always been in place and I've just never noticed. I think the DirectTV downloading various episodes from the VOD channels instead of waiting for the show to be broadcast may be contributing largely to the data usage which brings up a conflict of the recent merger of ATT and DirectTV in my book.
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> I will now be exploring a cable modem which will give better performance but I don't know if they have any data limits. This just seems like a revenue scheme to me. I just read Verizon is also changing their contract policy to get rid of contracts and change the data structure.
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> John Moore
> Barking Trout Productions
> Studio City, CA
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