Re: Leaving Tiscali Datastream

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:21:49 GMT, Bob <this@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:35:19 +0000, Wolseley 6-80 wrote:
>
>> "Peter M" <us-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:43d10955$0$1479$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Bob wrote:
>>>
>>> > They do, but ukonline told me they can only migrate me if I have
>>> > an ipstream MAC and not the datastream MAC that Tiscali gave me.
>>>
>>> I thought that there was no longer a problem with such migrations
>>> and there's therefore a chance that UK Online are misinformed, so
>>> I'm cross-posting in case someone in uk.net.providers can clarify
>>> the situation re UK Online... or point to anything which staff at
>>> UK Online should do/read to enable such migrations. Peter M.
>>>
>>
>> I wouldn't go back to UKOnline, their email pop3 server is an
>> underperforming load of crap.
>
>It's not very sensible to rely on ISP email anyway, it's a snare that
>they use to tie-in customers. I'm generally suspicious of ISPs that put
>conspicuous effort into email.

Can you elaborate on your suspicions? If you only need 1 email
address, but you want to keep it for life, then better to get yourself
a virtual address which does nothing but autoforward your email to
your real ISP mailbox, which you can then change as often as you like.

William
.

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