BT saying up yours to Free Email - Pay up or leave!

Werewolf said:
I'm surprised they still offered free access to past customers to begin with.

Most ISP's tend to shut down the non customer accounts either after 3-6 months, or on a semi regular basis.
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Indeed, my virgin mail address are still going after 15 months, I am happy for this, but they could go at any moment.
I think the only reason they haven't is that with all the acquisitions that virgin don't know just who exactly is who, and who is still active and who isn't.
 
I still have my o2 email active although I've left for 5 months now.

IMO they should just remove it - I dont use it. Just have it open for my archive.
 
Never used either of the emails provided by BT & Sky here. Just get an email address from Hotmail/GMail/Yahoo.

I can't understand why BT are charging for it, they make a mint from their broadband anyway.
 
Some web services have such crap IT in place that their only way to prevent abuse from spammers is to require users only use their ISP email (read any email that isn't hotmail, yahoo or gmail).

I rememebr ebay required ISP email or have to go throough additional verification checks. I chose to just use ISP email.

SO ISP email does have its use.
 
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Golf1.6 said:
Some web services have such crap IT in place that their only way to prevent abuse from spammers is to require users only use their ISP email (read any email that isn't hotmail, yahoo or gmail).

I rememebr ebay required ISP email or have to go throough additional verification checks. I chose to just use ISP email.

SO ISP email does have its use.
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OcUk does this :p (or at least used to)
 
Neil79 said:
Because at first BT said to people you can keep the email IF you keep using it on the BT Yahoo service. So we agreed to that clause, it's the reason the email was kept :)

BT who are already up to their eye balls in money are in it for a quick buck, as if they don't make enough as it is.
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And theres your reason!

BTYahoo is very soon no more, they've gave plenty info, theyre taking email in house.

when I left Virginmedia they took all my email addressess off me.

Werewolf said:
I'm surprised they still offered free access to past customers to begin with.

Most ISP's tend to shut down the non customer accounts either after 3-6 months, or on a semi regular basis.
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thats what virgin said to me, I lost them as soon as services ended lol :(


Neil79 said:
The annoying thing about it is, not the change of emails but the tons of emails I have in drafts/saved!

Sigh
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Move them? :confused:

I pay I think about £60 a year for my web hosting.
It's mainly used for a mail host and hosting images for us eon the forums and thats it lol

i think I've got like 150gb traffic allowance a month too beginning to think it may be a little overkill :p
 
o2 just sent their email closure mailshot out.

Sometimes these corporations all take the same action at similar times and you wonder if there is a dark conspiracy or something.
 
Slightly annoyed when I read that email as having had that email address for 10+ years it was time consuming having to transfer historic emails from that account into a new one..

Had a few customers ring the shop asking about this as they can no longer access their account as they'd not seen the warning email. Quite a few annoyed customers to say the least.
 
I bought my own domain name some 10 years ago or so. I've had the same email address through the numerous ISP's I've used over that time.
Still say this is the best way to get an "email address for life" which can be catchy and personal.
 
Neil79 said:
and yes, free email address are just as secure!

Did anyone forget the change over from hotmail to outlook and it screwed over a vast majority of email accounts? :)

My BT internet account has lasted since the days of BT OPENWORLD :D, however BT YAHOO have now gone over to Yahoo Sky :D



Wrong, I've found nothing wrong with my old ISP account until today and thats YEARS and YEARS!
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And now you know why people don't use ISP email. Web based email is about the best you can get in terms of the likelihood of the service continuing. If you want promises /re data retention and service levels then you need to pay and/or back up mail yourself.
 
~Divine~Wind~ said:
I pay I think about £60 a year for my web hosting.
It's mainly used for a mail host and hosting images for us eon the forums and thats it lol

i think I've got like 150gb traffic allowance a month too beginning to think it may be a little overkill :p
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I think you're being ripped off :)
 
stoofa said:
I bought my own domain name some 10 years ago or so. I've had the same email address through the numerous ISP's I've used over that time.
Still say this is the best way to get an "email address for life" which can be catchy and personal.
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problem is the spam filters on your email/web host will be horse***** so it becomes a real nuisance, gmail & others are pretty good with blocking spam. I've migrated from hotmail to gmail because hotmail does not support smtp and I outgrew windows live mail which works with hotmail on an smtp "like" manner. But does not work with any other email client.

It was a nuisance to migrate but I would still go for these free email accounts for the spam busting alone.
 
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