Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-08-02 Thread Neil Houghton
And the rest of us will leave, including us here in GMUG land who had a very nice little website running, supporting Apple products. so be it. Valé iTools and trust in Apple. Reg Well, given that the other option is Apple's financial status going down the tubes, and the company with it,

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-08-02 Thread Shay Telfer
I find it hard to believe that Apple's financial survival depends on charging for iTools. If it continues to provide the service but charges and then most of the punters spit the dummy and don't sign up for the service - it still incurs the costs of providing the service, it doesn't bring in much

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-08-02 Thread Keith Palmer
Maybe Shay should post the article explaining the move. After reading it myself I can understand the rationale employed by Apple. Indeed if they didn't employ it, there was the likelihood their stock would have been dumped big time. It was a question of the company surviving or upsetting

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-08-01 Thread Daniel Claire Forsdyke
Yahoo.com.au still offer a free email POP account, as well as other free services, and so far they haven't started deleting old messages like hotmail has. If you hadn't noticed already noticed, hotmail staff have been playing with your account recently. Yahoo appears prone to spam - but

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-08-01 Thread Reg Whitely
To paraphrase this week's MWJ article, Apple's in a financial crunch at the moment, because costs are up, hardware sales are down, and things are generally in the doldrums in the PC hardware industry. They can improve this quarter's profits by getting some income from iTools users, And the

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-08-01 Thread Shay Telfer
And the rest of us will leave, including us here in GMUG land who had a very nice little website running, supporting Apple products. so be it. Valé iTools and trust in Apple. Reg Well, given that the other option is Apple's financial status going down the tubes, and the company with it, it

Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-07-31 Thread Antony N. Lord
Seeing the number of my associates who I convinced to take up mac.com (iTools) e-mail accounts getting ready to lynch me / Apple can anyone recommend another free POP e-mail account? I'm sorry, I'm not using hotmail (put bluntly - it blows) and I'm not having them switch from their mail

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-07-31 Thread Shay Telfer
Seeing the number of my associates who I convinced to take up mac.com (iTools) e-mail accounts getting ready to lynch me / Apple can anyone recommend another free POP e-mail account? I'm sorry, I'm not using hotmail (put bluntly - it blows) and I'm not having them switch from their mail clients

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-07-31 Thread Phillip Arena
Yes, and although I'm still using my Mac, I've officially stopped encouraging colleagues to support and buy Mac until I'm given reason to believe that Apple are any different when it comes to 'screwing' the end-user. Phil At 10:29 PM +0800 31/7/02, Antony N. Lord wrote: And yes, I had them

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

2002-07-31 Thread Shay Telfer
Yes, and although I'm still using my Mac, I've officially stopped encouraging colleagues to support and buy Mac until I'm given reason to believe that Apple are any different when it comes to 'screwing' the end-user. To paraphrase this week's MWJ article, Apple's in a financial crunch at the