On 2021-06-22 at 07:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2021 07:02:25 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: >> >>> In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to >>> make it absolutely clear; >>> >>> gmail != email >>> >>> or, in words; >>> >>> gmail IS NOT email >>> >>> >>> There may be vast swathes of overlap, but don't expect google to >>> do anything right. >>> >>> All that google offer is for THEIR benefit, not yours. >> >> One reason I pay a local supplier for email service -- effectively >> it is cheaper than any so called "free service". > > Doesn't your ISP provide an email server? In my neck of the woods, > its part of the services an ISP provides for a basic 10 megabaud > connection.
Using ISP-provided E-mail comes with the downside of being tied to that ISP. I used to get an E-mail account through the family's ISP (and in fact I still have that mailbox configured in Thunderbird, just for access to the archived local mail stored underneath it), but when we changed ISPs, I lost access to that account and had to go through a bunch of hoops to transition to a new address. At that point, I decided it wasn't worth doing that transition to the address provided by the new ISP, because what if we changed again in the future? That's the point at which I searched out, settled on, and signed up with a third-party standalone-service E-mail provider - in the form of Fastmail. It's paid off; I've never had cause to regret working with them, and we've changed ISPs at least once (possibly as much as three times) in the meanwhile. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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