After 11 years of using this email address, I will no longer be using it.
UKOnline, an ISP, wants me to either dial in at least once every 60 days or pay £15-odd a year to keep it active. Since I’m a nomad, it’s impossible to dial in, and I’m not prepared to pay £15 to receive hundreds of spam a week.
So if any of you guys still use this email address to contact me, you need to use my other one – kyle A sterrymeuk where the A is the @, and put in the dots between sterry and me and uk (don’t want to spell it out for spam robots!).
Dear Customer
We sent you an email on the 12th September about the ongoing use of this UK Online email account. The 30 day period in which to re-activate your account is coming to a close. You will need to act this week to prevent the closure of your email address.
Our records show that this email address is part of a UK Online Pay as you Surf account that had not been dialled up for 60 days prior to our email on the 12th September. The terms and conditions of our Pay as you Surf state that you must dial into your account every 60 days in order to keep the product active.
Please note that simply accessing your email via a non UK Online internet account will not meet the terms and conditions.
If you currently use another ISP to connect to the Internet, but wish to keep your UK Online email address – you can convert your Pay as you Surf account to a mail only account for just £14.99 per year. Log on to www.ukonline.net/home/mail to sign up.
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Sounds about right as they need to make money and your using their server colecting emails.
But with so many free emails accounts google mail seem to b ethe best and you can retrieve your Gmail messages with a client or device that supports POP
Well I think their business model is flawed, yes they need to make money but they could have offered a choice – advert-laden emails like Yahoo and Gmail or nowt and pay for it.
I only kept my email as some old friends might get in touch with me. But my presence on the web is easily googable now so it’s not too much of a bother. Most of the emails on that account are now spam.
I have a gmail one but rarely use it – I suspect will be using that more now for web stuff and mailing lists!
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