JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:26:28 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:


I'm mystified as to why people use it, frankly, especially people who have
web access at home. If you've got an ISP, you have e-mail.

Lots of good reasons starting with fast, efficient and vast amounts of
free storage. Add in universal availability from whatever computer
you happen to be on, and you've got a winner.



The "universal availability" is true of most ISP e-mail plans, but the rest
isn't comparable, I guess.


Also, if you actually use the email address assigned by your isp then it
is subject to change. Not so bad these days, but in the early years my
email address was changing 3 times a year as companies went out of
business or got bought and sold.

My gmail and yahoo address, OTOH, are not subject to whims of the isp
business and the email sent to/from those is available everywhere.
Gmail has a surprisingly good spam filter too. I get about about one
spam a week there, as opposed to hundreds a day at my triple-filtered
work address.