Death to Yahoo!

[pengolodh_sc]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter, "Megan" wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter, "Aberforth's Goat" > wrote:
> > Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray, who thinks it's about
> > time to buy a domain name with email service. And it won't
> > be from Yahoo.)
> 
> Why not just use webview?  It takes probably the same amount
> of time to check your e-mail, is not burden-some or
> unseemingly complicated, plus you maintain the same address
> you've always had for free.  

[snip]

There are several reasons to not use webview that may come into 
effect.  Many members of HPfGU, OTChatter, and other groups, have 
dial-up connections, where theya re charged by the minute for the 
time spent online, with a minimum charge for each time you log on.  A 
bundle of messages which takes one hour to read in webview, will take 
just as much time to read if downloaded to the computer, but you only 
have to stay online for a few minutes to collect it if you download 
the mail to your computer.  If you read it in webview at the groups, 
or in webmail at Yahoo!Mail, you either have to stay online the whole 
time, or you have to log on and log off and log on and log off and 
log on and log off and log on....  It is simply cheaper to download 
to the local computer in such a situation.  The possibility of 
downloading to the computer is what Yahoo!Mail is now going to take 
money for.

Also, there is may be a wish to have a local archive of the messages 
one considers important, in case the group goes down, which is a 
justified worry in many cases.

Best regards
Christian Stubø