On Oct 30, 11:00*pm, "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:04:38 -0500, Stu wrote:
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> >> On 31 Oct 2010 00:15:26 GMT, Cheryl > wrote:
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> >>>On Fri 29 Oct 2010 10:10:21p, Stu wrote in rec.food.cooking
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> >>>> I used Fedora for many years till our provider forced us onto
> >>>> windows live, now it's outlook 2007, I won't use windows live.
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> >>>Provider enforced? *Provider as in provider of what?
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> >> Our ISP told us that we were migrating to windows live, this just
> >> after they shut down their news server, then shut down their mail
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> > That still makes no sense whatsoever. *ISP's do not use Windows
> > Live Anything to serve their customers. *And if they don't even
> > have a mail server, there is absolutely NO possibility that they
> > could force you to use any specific operating system or mail
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> > You have no clue WTF you're talking about.
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> > -sw
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> My guess is they are shutting down the regular mail servers as we know it
> and forcing customers to Windows Live, a web based system integrated with
> Hotmail. * I strongly dislike Hotmail, Gmail and the like.

Why? Their spam filters work great. Now getting rid of news servers
did suck, but GoogleGroups works OK.
You're just an old man who doesn't like change.

--Bryan