Barbara, I don't think your a dinosaur, sounds very logical based on experience , I also say Eds reply on yahoo and gmail having issues with the listserv. I am not surprised based on my experience as a vendor....then again I blame my old age of 62 ...lol
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 20, 2012, at 2:41 AM, ibmmain <nitz-...@gmx.net> wrote: >> Why all this web mail stuff? Doesn't anybody actually use their ISP's mail >> servers with an actual mail client sending and receiving the mail on their >> PC anymore? > > I do. Unfortunately only at home, email clients cannot go through the > firewall at work. Although I don't use the ISP's mail server, I use the > normal POP3/SMTP protocol associated with an email id. Admittedly, it has > become very hard to even find their setup instructions these days. They are > well hidden, as the provider of a free email address wants you to use their > web interface so you get bombarded with their ads so they make money. > > I also don't store my email somewhere in the cloud, i.e. don't use web space > from the free email address indefinitely. But then, I am a dinosaur. > > Barbara Nitz > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
