Comments on news posted 2008-12-28 10:59:57: Fairpoint is getting ready for the repeatedly delayed complete takeover of Verizon's DSL and landline networks in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. ..
pnh102 Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty Premium join:2002-05-02 Mount Airy, MD
Email Issues In This Day and Age?
It still surprises me that people in this day and age continue to rely on their ISP for email. With all of the free alternatives out there, like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, why would anyone want to be attached to ISP email and all the hassles that come with it? -- Blagojevich / Madoff 2012!
I agree about decoupling email from ISP, that is one of the reasons I registered a domain name years ago.
However if email persistence it not important there is nothing wrong with using your ISP mail account and it provides one-stop shopping. It is easy for some of us to overlook just how overwhelming Internet access can be. Great strides have been made to make it easier but to the uninitiated it is still a pretty daunting task. As far as Portals are concerned I've never used one so I'm hard pressed to say what the advantage is.
From the FairPoint brochure I received the only thing changing is email domain name, and folks using portals will no longer be able to access email from the portal. FairPoint is migrating settings, even passphase to new environment.
What I found interesting is there is no mention about changing PPPoE log in. That means FairPoint is either moving to open PPPoE or will continue to accept Verizon as the domain name.
It still surprises me that people in this day and age continue to rely on their ISP for email. With all of the free alternatives out there, like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, why would anyone want to be attached to ISP email and all the hassles that come with it?
I keep 2 Comcast email addresses - 1 for communication from Comcast about official policy changes, etc(my original email addr from 8 yrs ago) and 1 I use when I never want to see email from web page signups(that mail all goes in to the bit bucket).
I use Gmail for all my personal email needs and forward the 1 official Comcast mail addr to that. -- My BLOG .. .. Internet News .. .. My Web Page Ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?
"Verizon customers are simply losing access to IMAP-based ISP-email through third party webmail vendors." Maybe its lost in translation but how is this not blocking access to third pary webmail services? I am googling "IMAP" and it reads like customers of Fairpoint will lose functionality. Clarify please in english what is not being lost.
Email Issues In This Day and Age?
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