PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Bob Noel on March 14, 2017, 11:54:12 AM
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in lieu of an appropriate forum...
Verizon is telling it's customers that it will no longer be providing email services and that FAQ states: "Your verizon.net email will be moved to AOL at no charge."
Sooo, the suspicious side of me is wondering if email providers are all free or are some fee-for-service?
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in lieu of an appropriate forum...
Verizon is telling it's customers that it will no longer be providing email services and that FAQ states: "Your verizon.net email will be moved to AOL at no charge."
Sooo, the suspicious side of me is wondering if email providers are all free or are some fee-for-service?
I'm no expert, but this may give you a little information. It provides a link with a description of some of the differences between free & fee email.
edit: oops. I forgot to provide the link
https://www.reagan.com/
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Sooo, the suspicious side of me is wondering if email providers are all free or are some fee-for-service?
Both.
I have an email account (and a handful of aliases -- effectively additional accounts -- for spouse, kids, etc.) through my broadband ISP (cable company). I certainly pay for those, as part of the bundle included with broadband service.
When I moved states a few years ago, I learned that when my account with that cable company is closed, those e-mail addresses expire immediately. I was hoping I could get 6 mos. or a year of forwarding to a new address, either as a courtesy or for a nominal fee -- like USPS mail forwarding. The cable company doesn't offer that service at any price. So in order to preserve continuity, I migrated to a Gmail account. That address stays the same no matter which ISP I use. I don't pay for that Gmail account, but Google has access to the content of those emails and also the metadata (header information like to: and cc:, bcc:) to target advertising to me and the people I trade emails with. That's the bargain to get the Gmail for "free".
I also have a business domain that I host with Google and purchase email service on that domain from them. The suite of services that most people get from Google for free (e-mail; calendar; cloud storage) I pay $5 a month to have attached to my professional domain address. Needless to say, Google is data-mining that stream as well, but I get the benefit of NOT having "@Gmail.com" on my business correspondence.
Hope that helps.
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AOL is still around?
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AOL is still around?
apparently. Who knew?
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in lieu of an appropriate forum...
Verizon is telling it's customers that it will no longer be providing email services and that FAQ states: "Your verizon.net email will be moved to AOL at no charge."
Sooo, the suspicious side of me is wondering if email providers are all free or are some fee-for-service?
Huh. I'm a Verizon mobile phone customer but don't know anything about their email.
I have a Road Runner email account as I get my internet from Time Warner, but now that Time Warner was purchased by Charter/Spectrum, I wonder if that will change.
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I've had my own domain, and hence the same email address, since 1995. I've had it hosted by three different providers in all that time. It is not free, but never more cost than about one fast-food meal a month.
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I use Gmail for my personal account and we use Microsoft Exchange at work. Payment for the latter is no nonsense fee-for-service. Payment for the former is much more sinister.