Salutations,
That is what I said. Get any other email address than the ISP one. Yahoo
has POP3 support and Apple has POP3/IMAP4.
Cheers,
David
>
> I object to this solution because all those free mailers are web-based and
> take forever to download messages. (They also reek of advertising.) It is
> just as simple to select a permanent email address (universities offer them
> and so do other places) and then just set yr mailer to go out through
> whatever isp you are using at the moment and grab the mail off the
> permanent location.
>
> peter
>
>
> On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 03:44 , SlashDevNull wrote:
>
>>
>> Salutations,
>>
>> Without pointing fingers, this is exactly the reason why you should never
>> use your ISP for your mail. Whenever you change your ISP, you have to tell
>> everyone your new email address and they have to change it on every
>> computer
>> they use and also remember to use the new email address.
>>
>> Mush better to get a free email address, Apple or Yahoo for example, and
>> completely ignore whatever your ISP offers. So you can change ISPs to your
>> heart's delight and never have to change your email address.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>
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