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Re: Frank Carmickle and Marco Paganini must die



On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:34:45PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 20 septembre 2004 à 13:04 -0700, Adam McKenna a écrit :
> > Those people should use one of the many free, reliable webmail sites.
> 
> How can you compare the features and usability of a webmail service to a
> modern MUA?

There are many free or nominal cost mail services out there that will allow 
you to download your mail with a POP or IMAP client.  My ISP offers such a 
service for $60 per year.

> > That
> > said, I tend to doubt that the state of ISP mail servers is really as bad as
> > some people make it out to be.
> 
> However misconfigurations are quite frequent. I've seen numerous mails
> been dropped, re-encoded, or delayed because of them.

I've seen numerous problems and delays with mail that were caused by 
problems with the recipient's ISP, and blamed on the sender's ISP.

--Adam

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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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