____/ ed on Saturday 14 July 2007 13:22 : \____
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:09:33 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yahoo pulled a similar trick, essentially ending POP access about 6
>> years ago. I had to abandon them because they charged for POP3. It's
>> like change of TaC that a user with a long-held E-mail address simply
>> must cope with. No forwarding either, IIRC. Just Web access with ugly
>> ads...
>>
>> Host your own E-mail. As BearItAll said some months ago, it's very
>> cheap and you maintain the same address for a lifetime.
>
> That's what's so good about open source, is that practically anyone can
> just plug in a SMTP server, at no extra cost.
>
> Imagine if this guy wanted to do that in MS land, he'd have to fork out
> for Windows Server 2003 + Exchange. That's a metric ass load of
> expense that no one should have to pay. Not to mention that exposing MS
> Exchange directly to the Internet is a lot like painting a bulls-eye
> on your backside and bending over, naked, in a Greenwich Village steam
> room (except MS is not nearly as safe).
Do people at Greenwich Village throw chairs? You're not talking about Trojans,
are you?
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