____/ Philip on Saturday 14 July 2007 03:19 : \____
> Greg Cox wrote:
>> In article <N5Tli.570$Dx2.265@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, me@xxxxxxxxxx
>> says...
>>> Although not directly related to Linux, I thought I'd share a recent
>>> experience that I feel demonstrates Microsoft strong arming.
>>>
>>> I am moving to Washington state and wanted high speed Internet access.
>>> Since I hate the cable companies, I wanted DSL. Qwest is the local DSL
>>> provider. Setting up an account for their silver service, all appeared
>>> well (no mention of MSN at all). Come set up day, lo the ISP is MSN and
>>> no POP or IMAP servers for email access are available, only some hokie
>>> "html" email from guess who. After lengthy battles with Qwest tech
>>> support, where I explain that I use Linux and real email readers with no
>>> advertising and spam blockers needed and they all act as if they never
>>> heard of POP or IMAP, they finally admit that MSN had just discontinued
>>> the pop service. They said that I could get pop server access via their
>>> qwest.net service for a little more each month. OK, I agree to change.
>>>
>>> Come set up day, lo no email service at all, nada. After another round
>>> of lengthy battles with Qwest tech support, they state they do not
>>> provide residential pop email service, because as part of the agreement
>>> with MSN, Qwest cannot provide a competing email service!!!!! I have to
>>> go to a 3rd party ISP to get such a service.
>>>
>>> End of story, bye bye Qwest. I was forced to the cable dark side.
>>>
>>
>> So why couldn't you have picked from one of the many other ISPs besides
>> MSN that support Qwest DSL? You do realize that Quest only provides the
>> transport, right?
>> http://www.qwest.com/residential/internet/isp_list.html
>>
> Now I do, but they sold it to me claiming that they did.
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.
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