hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
 ·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| ISP Email Solution
Never use the ISP Email solution. There are plenty of free email providers to choose from; Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live/Hotmail, any many many more.
Why do people still rely on their ISPs email! Especially knowing that they're being sold and still keep the old domain up until the point where now they're having problems.
It's like Fairpoint was keeping the domain-like Elink does when they used to buy customers.
If you don't want a free email provider why not spend the $10 a year get some dirt cheap hosting and use your own domain. Never ever worry. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
2 edits |  ISP email just for ISP missives
I only keep the ISP email for 1 reason: for communications from the ISP. And that I forward to Gmail. I use Gmail for all my communications with friends and family and with vendors. And I keep a Hotmail acct as backup and for throwaway addresses when signing up for web sites where spam may result. |
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baineschile
2600
Premium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | reply to hottboiinnc
Re: ISP Email Solution
100% agreed |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: ISP email just for ISP missives
My ISP places all the emails they send to customers on their homepage. |
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tschmidt
Premium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
 ·Hollis Hosting
 ·Verizon Online DSL
·Fairpoint Communic..
| reply to TKJunkMail
I registered a domain name years ago after playing ISP of the month several times over. If you want to make sure old acquaintances can contact you years later a domain name is cheap insurance.
I also use a free gmail account but with the full knowledge Google could decide to drop it tomorrow (not likely but possible).
I'm surprised email transition has been so rocky. IT departments do this all the time. The low moment was earlier today when Verizon was forwarding mail to FairPoint servers only to have it rejected it as spam. Does not bode well for the future.
/tom |
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OSUGoose
join:2007-12-27
Columbus, OH
clubs: | reply to hottboiinnc
Re: ISP Email Solution
because alot of websites require and isp based email address for verification of who you are or your age. Because anyone can get a free yahoo, hotmail, ect. act. even spammer and scammers. |
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n1zuk
How About Them Raiders
Premium
join:2001-10-24
South Burlington, VT | Can you read me now?
Well, can you?  |
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erikthebean
join:2007-06-25
Manchester, NH | reply to tschmidt
Re: ISP email just for ISP missives
Hey Tom Kind of off topic but i thought TDS along with FairPoint was in Milford??? |
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Nafets
join:2003-08-20
| It could be worse...
I could care less about ISP's e-mail services. I stopped using them years ago.
Regarding the changeover, my ex-Verizon FIOS, now Fairpoint FAST connection is operating perfectly. No hiccups that I can report. Latencies are the same, and down/upload speeds are just as they were with Verizon. As long as it stays that way, I have no problems with Fairpoint.
Now if they could get the online billing and payment service working, I'd be even happier... |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
·Comcast
| reply to OSUGoose
Re: ISP Email Solution
said by OSUGoose  :because alot of websites require and isp based email address for verification of who you are or your age. Because anyone can get a free yahoo, hotmail, ect. act. even spammer and scammers. That's pretty dumb of those websites. Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo are mainstream email providers and should be recognized as such by other websites.
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Blagojevich / Madoff 2012! |
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Techsupport
@grandenetworks.net
| Give Fairpoint a chance.
I work for the company that does FP tech support. It has been a fun transition. We handle multiple ISP's Centurytel. Frontier, and others. I've been thru a few take overs but this has been the hardest. A lot of the issue we are facing are from Verison. Even though Verison has a share in FP (fairpoint) they arent making the transition that easy. Not a lot of connection issues but a ton of NH email problems.
We are told that by the end of next week everything will be solved. Maybe. But, I can tell you this. The FP reps we have been working with including reps from the company that hosts the mail are working very hard to get everything operational. |
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marklaflamme
@myfairpoint.net
| Good, bad, ugly
Two of the three user accounts on my home network made the transition without even a tiny glitch. The third: no go. After several rounds with online support chat, I finally got through on the tech support phone line. They could not only figure out the problem, they couldn't find my account at all. Very mysterious. The problem remains unsolved. Still, considering what they're taking on, I'll give it a few more days before deeming the transition a failure. I'm diplomatic like that. |
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bac522
join:2003-08-04
Manchester, NH
| Lost Access
I lost access to my Fairpoint Fast (aka FIOS) for several hours this weekend. Couldn't call anyone at Fairpoint because I happen to use VoIP so my phones were down. Being in the service provider business myself I logged onto some BGP routers (thanks to a friend whose comcast was working) and notice that most of Fairpoint's routes were MIA from the Internet...oops...someone missed the boat at Fairpoint.
Several hours of no service doesn't strike me as a smooth transitions. Being a guru in BGP and Internet routers there is actually zero reason that this should have happened. |
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brainlessdog
join:2005-11-30
Portsmouth, NH
1 edit | Lost internet Saturday, Email sub-accounts gone
I am not impressed at all. I have fiber. Lost internet service all morning Saturday. I still use PPPOE because that is the way it was installed. I hear that is why it did not work.
Email is terrible. After changing to the Myfairpoint servers, my sub-accounts are gone. I haven't called tech support yet about the email. I called Saturday and got India. So much for keeping jobs local. |
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LD 50
join:2000-08-28
Milford, NH
clubs: | information
I never did receive anything in the mail, or an email, about steps to take for the transition. I don't use the ISP mail, but I am curious if the PPPoE username (VZE-----) will need to be updated for logon at some point? |
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PB Vermont
@myfairpoint.net | Fairpoint
Fairpoint is a disaster@!!! No customer service available and intermittent, spotty e-mail service. Hundreds of e-mails are lost. All our worst fears about losing Verizon are realized. Horrible, inconvenient, uncaring and worse. |
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BZL52
@myfairpoint.net
1 edit | Never notified, still not working.
I first signed up for DSL in January. Apparently, because of the timing, I was never notified about the transition. Fairpoint says I was, but I have triple-checked my E-mail (I was looking at it constantly, because I am using it to find a job) and I never received the E-mail. I checked the contents of the modem box, and the service agreements only say "some time in the future", with no date. I checked my most recent bill, which is the only one that has any DSL information on it, and it also says only "in the future".
The problem is, I apparently was lost in the system. My account was never transitioned over. My Verizon E-mail account has been disabled, but I can't log in to Fairpoint either. I spent more than 4 hours on the telephone and in live chat, and the Fairpoint technitions could not find my account information. At least two Fairpoint customer service people told me their systems are down and they can't check my account. At this time (03-Jan-2009 3:38 AM Eastern) I still have no E-mail access, which is a very serious problem for someone in a job search. If I had known, I could have forwarded my mail to a different account, but now that the switch has taken place I can't change my forwarding in Verizon (I talked to many Verizon people, they say only Fairpoint can do anything) and the Fairpoint telephone number doesn't answer.
This has been a major disaster for me. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to OSUGoose
Re: ISP Email Solution
Gmail works just like an ISP email now. It is even accepted by eBay as an email address that they do not require anything else for free
But still why can't your purchase a domain and have your own email address.
Just another excuse to use the ISP email and complain when it doesn't work. |
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Beth F
@fairpoint.com
| reply to brainlessdog
Re: Lost internet Saturday, Email sub-accounts gone
Hello, I work for FairPoint and I apologize for the difficulty with your email migration. I'm happy to say that FairPoint Internet technical support 1-800-240-5019 is based in the USA. Verizon Online tech support 1-800-567-6789 will no longer handle technical support for FairPoint beginning 1.31.09. If you have any issues with your FairPoint Internet service or email migration to @myfairpoint.net, please try the web-based chat tool for technical support on www.myfairpoint.net or keep try the 1-800-240-5019 number. Thank you, Beth Fastiggi |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to BZL52
Re: Never notified, still not working.
get a Gmail account never have the problem.
ISP customers should NEVER use their ISP email addresses to find a job. Things like this happens. |
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