NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
1 edit | reply to maartena
Re: OpenDNS
The comment was about using another DNS provider be the same as using another email provider. It is not quite the same thing, no matter how you cut, slice, or dice it.
Whether you use your ISP's DNS, or not, is more a matter of whether your ISP's DNS servers are doing the job, or not. If their DNS is broken, you will have trouble accessing the Internet.
Whether you use your ISP's email, or not, is a matter of personal convenience (unless the ISP email is as broken as the ISP DNS).
Neither my ISP DNS servers, nor my ISP email give me any grief (I've had more grief from third party email service providers than my ISP email).
I use my ISP's DNS servers because they work as well as any other DNS servers.
I don't use my ISP's email because it is inconvenient to be tied to them by the email domain.
So my assessment stand: "Not quite the same".
P.S. My ISP (Pacific Bell) was bought! My ISP email address is still <%User_ID%@pacbell.net>. Road Runner did not do as Comcast did in their respective Adephia buyouts (former Adelphia users with the same User_ID as Comcast users, had to sign up an email address with a new User_ID name, not just a new domain. Not so with Road Runner).
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Norman
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