"Default User" > wrote in message
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> jmcquown wrote:
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>> Yabbut... you use gmail. Why, exactly? I much prefer a non-web
>> based email client; the web based ones are slow and clunky, IMHO.
>
> I've used the same "real" email address at Hotmail for over 10 years
> (not this one, obviously). That's through about seven or eight changes
> of ISP. At one time, when you left, you left the email address too, I
> can't recall if that's still the case. At any rate, I can access my
> email from any computer that's connected to the web, without needing
> any installed email client.
>

Of course, Brian, and I do that when I'm travelling and want to check email
from a hotel business center. I'm using the web to check my email on my
account back home while I'm here. I just don't care to use a web browser
for email or newsgroup access otherwise.

Jill