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In <3A76695F.82D329FB@spamcop.net>, Mike Blackford
<mblackford@spamcop.net> wrote:

>Brian wrote:
>> 
>> Easy solution - use another POP/SMTP provider.  Even though I don't use
>> @Home (Road Runner), I use Yahoo! and a few other free POP accounts
>> (mailandnews.com) that work flawlessly every time I pop into them or send
>> mail out via SMTP to them.
>> 
>> Friends of mine who have @Home hate the Email service also, and most have
>> gone the route I have.  Broadband into Yahoo! mail for instance - works
>> great.
>> 
>> Just an idea.
>
>Yes, and this is a rational alternative to some extent. There *are* some
>things to consider, however.  Free email services have some downsides:
>many embed ads in the email, their reliability isn't 99%, they have
>limited functionality, there's no pretense of a customer 'support'
>function that can be expected to respond to outages or failures, and there
>is absolutely no consumer leverage where a fee isn't being paid.  Not all
>have every downside, or even most, of course. YMMV.  (I've examined and
>monitored about a dozen of these services for the past 6-12 months.)

Try <http://www.myrealbox.com/>.

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John Navas     <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
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