On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:27:13AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> [11-29-12 11:16]:
> Perhaps the same as for a hotmail/yahoo/ms/aol/... address. Years past
Well yeah, I remember those...never used them because I knew they were
useless from day one (except yahoo, before I found out I could get a
non-local ISP e-mail from gmail. I switched to gmail because Cox kept
losing e-mail left and right. Spam filters (on Cox) were off, there were
no records of the missing e-mails being filtered out, or anything. They
just fell off into oblivion. So my cox.net e-mail went into 100% disuse,
and I switched everything (sendmail and fetchmail) to use gmail instead.
Later,
--jim
PS: Oh, btw, I'm not among those "younger readers" you mentioned.
I've been around and on the Internet (including e-mail) since
it was still called the Arpanet. Oh, and there was also Bitnet,
Archie servers, and of course, Usenet, most of which was in the
comp.sources.unix heirarchy.
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