pete9976
@patmedia.net | reply to mdr5
Re: [HSI] just got my comcast notice
Does anyone know what will happen to our "@patmedia.net" email addresses? |
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cryptmagic
Premium
join:2006-06-26
New York, NY | You will probably lose your email address soon, honestly why would you tie yourself to your cable provider for email?
You should get yourself a gmail account. |
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Jabba
@patmedia.net
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Comcast wants you to have an @comcast email address, not @patmedia. It's free advertising for them to have their name in your email address. Years ago Comcast took over E. Brunswick and they got 3 days notice that their email was changing according to my friend who lives there. Hopefully today email is more engrained and they realize it will take more than 3 days to change my email at the hundreds of places that have it. And no I'm not going to change it to @comcast, I've got my own domain now so I'm not linked to my ISP. |
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submrge
join:2004-10-10
Mine Hill, NJ | why people don't use yahoo, gmail etc for email is beyond me. i've had the same yahoo email address for 10 yrs. and i've changed isp's 3 times. |
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pete9976
@patmedia.net
| I like the idea of being able to use MS Outlook to read/track my messages, I have messages going back years.
However, I just noticed that gmail supports IMAP mail so maybe I'll try that. Not sure if any of the other services offers it for free. |
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Zookeeper
join:2002-05-24
Hillsborough, NJ
 ·Comcast
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March 18th, @04:45PM
| Gmail also supports smtp & pop, as does Lavabit.
Fastmail & AIM (the free AOL mail)support IMAP.
If you could get through a little German, GMX.net, is a great provider that's been around for years, that provides free pop & smtp along with 1 Gig of storage. Gmail, I believe, gives you more than 6 Gigs.
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