Could be weaseling, or there may be actual reasons. That's what we need,
another lawsuit saying that free email is hurting AOL or what have you. But
$19.95 a year for an email account isn't that bad. However, the limitations
of having to use only Outlook Express to access it, is onerous.

I am on the cusp of changing the address I use on the list in the ongoing
struggle against spammer vermin, to coincide with my employer's recent
acquisition of a new domain name. Eventually, all I will get at the current
address is spam.

I have already decided, for home use, to only give out my ISP-based email
address to people that I have met face-to-face. I use a tortured hotmail.com
address for anything else, which I expect to abandon if or when it starts
getting spammed, at the price of having to supply some new address to those
companies with which I care to have contact. Since only I have to be able to
remember it and say it, the address consists of some part of my initials,
and my phone number. While I could have used other unique numbers, such as
ZIP+4, I am confident that such a combination should always be unique, and
therefore available. I've read that spammers have an aversion to spamming
bizarre addresses, such as those containing strings of number or other odd
characters, although only they know if this is so, or why it might be.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 5:47 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: FREE POP Access or auto-forwarding
>
> You might very well think that 'we will no longer be able to offer' is
> weasel-wording for 'we have decided no longer to offer', but
> I couldn't
> possibly comment....
>
> --
> Roy Brown

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