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Topic: | Third world problems? This thread has 8 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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Post 1 made on Thursday October 7, 2021 at 19:38 |
Trunk-Slammer -Supreme Loyal Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2003 7,462 |
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Since we've moved to the beach, we have to change all of our info.
Address changes, email changes, etc, etc.
I hope no one hear ever goes through it. Some internet sites make it a nightmare to change your email address. If you don't still have access to your old email address, it is virtually impossible to alter it.
Then it becomes even more of a cluster, since a physical address, and a phone number change each require a separate event.
On some sites, I gave up, so I'll just get less spam now. LOL
Closed a Spectrum account. Closing our other Spectrum account soon, and converting to a fiber source that has higher speeds at less cost. Loving that!
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Post 2 made on Thursday October 7, 2021 at 20:23 |
buzz Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | May 2003 4,376 |
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For personal email, I have my own domain and hosting account. I can easily change ISP's or hosts and no one will notice. Same for the company. With the dedicated host, it's easy to have 'his/hers/kids@', 'info@', etc. mailboxes.
I've always been tempted to create a 'spam@' for one-off contacts while I'm researching something. This will avoid my real address from being passed around and give a hint that I really don't want to hear from them again.
For the company host I have a filter that will block messages from 'Dr. Phil' and 'Viagra', 'V1agra', etc. The server returns an error message to the sender indicating that the message cannot be delivered. I log the blocked messages, but they don't appear in my inbox. Evidently, the spammers manage their lists because the level of blocked spam has decreased dramatically over the years -- except for "Military Grade Flashlights".
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Post 3 made on Thursday October 7, 2021 at 20:54 |
highfigh Loyal Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2004 8,322 |
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On October 7, 2021 at 19:38, Trunk-Slammer -Supreme said...
Since we've moved to the beach, we have to change all of our info.
Address changes, email changes, etc, etc.
I hope no one hear ever goes through it. Some internet sites make it a nightmare to change your email address. If you don't still have access to your old email address, it is virtually impossible to alter it.
Then it becomes even more of a cluster, since a physical address, and a phone number change each require a separate event.
On some sites, I gave up, so I'll just get less spam now. LOL
Closed a Spectrum account. Closing our other Spectrum account soon, and converting to a fiber source that has higher speeds at less cost. Loving that! Why do you need to change your e-mail address- did you actually use the @roadrunner.com account? I found this- [Link: techlicious.com]When I stopped using an e-mail account, I sent a group message to everyone in my address book, assuming that it would go through and they all would read it. I was wrong- should have kept the account open long enough that I would know everyone had the new address.
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Post 4 made on Thursday October 7, 2021 at 21:58 |
djnorm Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | January 2002 1,693 |
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I'm still getting mail forwarded from my 'optonline.net' address more than ten years after I switched. I logged onto the email server and set up forwarding right after switching, and it just never went away. My wife still clicks on it once in a while by accident, and it still comes through.
weird.
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OP | Post 5 made on Thursday October 7, 2021 at 23:15 |
Trunk-Slammer -Supreme Loyal Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2003 7,462 |
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On October 7, 2021 at 20:54, highfigh said...
Why do you need to change your e-mail address- did you actually use the @roadrunner.com account? We did. Now using outlook so we are not tied to a ISP. As soon as the company can run fiber to the house, we will be done with Spectrum entirely (love this).
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Post 6 made on Friday October 8, 2021 at 07:07 |
mrtristan Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | October 2003 1,634 |
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One thing that's created an annoying unexpected problem for me is a message I keep getting on all my Apple devices that I have to reset Keychain. I've had to sign in multiple time to get it going. All because I signed out of icloud to create an Apple ID for my wife. When I signed back in, it wanted me to type in the passcode from another device, which I could figure out. Because I could do that, all hell has broken loose.
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Post 7 made on Friday October 8, 2021 at 10:11 |
SWOInstaller Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | October 2010 1,596 |
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This is why (even as a young person) I never used an email address linked to an ISP. I have always had a Hotmail account (when it first started) and then created a gmail account and now use the hotmail account for spam sign up that I really don't use anymore. I do have an ISP email account and have had it since being a customer of theirs but have never used it.
It is surprising at how many people use an ISP email account and not think of if/when they change providers that they will no longer have access to this.
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You can't fix stupid |
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Post 8 made on Thursday October 14, 2021 at 12:17 |
wildulmer Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | June 2007 272 |
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I have been telling my sisters to drop their Comcast email addresses but they just don't want to. Some day it will be necessary, then it will be a pain.
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Post 9 made on Thursday October 14, 2021 at 12:30 |
Rob Grabon Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2001 1,392 |
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Relevant - Apple users The new Apple Cloud+ (starts at $12 year) now includes domain email as long as you own the domain. [Link: support.apple.com]
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