sf wrote:

> On 20 Feb 2008 18:13:31 GMT, "Default User" >
> wrote:
>
> > jmcquown wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> >
>
> Most, if not all, ISPs are set up now so you can access your email
> through the web too.

It didn't used to be that way, when I was establishing my email
address. Plus the problem of losing the address every time you changed
ISP. I've had a stable email address for over ten years, because it was
Hotmail. I have dozens of email alerts and notification services I
subscribe to, and I'm in many people's address books already. I'm sure
as hell not going to change.



Brian

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