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Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Err...
So, what's the problem, exactly? Just take the ad-based free service. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. are ad-based free services too. Nobody is forcing them to change anything.
People who use the default email their ISP gives them don't like change. The new service will probably have a different login screen and that's going to upset aunty Ethel and uncle ron. And then a different colour background. It's the worst thing that anyone could ever do to them
Yes and it's fun getting Windows Live Mail 2012 to keep working at the best of times.
Every year or so, have to add these registry entries to revive it
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail]
"RecreateFolderIndex"=dword:00000001
"RecreateStreamIndex"=dword:00000001
"RecreateUIDLIndex"=dword:00000001
They'd prefer Outlook Express.
For everyone's sake it might be best to refuse to support the application because of the security risks with such an outdated program.