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19 Feb 2017, 08:18 AM | #256 | |
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https://www.genband.com/media-center...ransformation- FastMail soon hopefully. You won't be missed. |
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19 Feb 2017, 08:22 AM | #257 | |
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19 Feb 2017, 11:27 AM | #258 |
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Stay AWAY...
is all I can say. This company Fastmail clearly plays games with what they charge for what pretty much is FREE from everyone else..Google, AOL, Mail.com, Microsoft ect. The one big difference, is that even these huge internet giants give a darn about their reputations. Who wants to be at the mercy of their email provider? They clearly have demonstrated that they will do what they want. I truly feel for the folks here that have PAID for a membership for LIFE, and now they want to charge them because it's better for their financial gain. And as some here have pointed out, it's truly a breach of contract which by the way is illegal.
Nothing, but nothing is worse than the feeling of being manipulated and controlled because a company or a person has the one up on you! They OWN your email address, and although you use it they take it away if they don't get the money from you they think it's worth. Sure, you can have your own domain name but the vast majority of Fastmail users either don't know that or don't want the hassle or extra expense if they don't have a website that uses the domain. It baffles me that anybody in their right mind would continue to use their services. I had a "guest" account when they first started back in 1998. I didn't pay for it of course and it only allocated a measly 15 MB. But I still used it on certain things. Now they are taking it away. What people don't understand that it's the principal of this behavior that is so despised not the $15.00 loss of paying a lifetime membership or in my case not paying for anything at all! |
19 Feb 2017, 05:33 PM | #259 | |
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Almost reminds me of a line from Reservoir Dogs - "Are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or you gonna bite?". |
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19 Feb 2017, 09:57 PM | #260 | |
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Choose whose game you want to play. |
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19 Feb 2017, 10:41 PM | #261 | |
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Rule of life: if something is "free", that means "you" are the product that's being sold. TV sells viewers to advertisers, that's why show ratings are so important. The more viewers a show has, the higher the cost of the commercials. If an e-mail service is "free" it means your info is being watched. |
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20 Feb 2017, 01:46 AM | #262 | |
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20 Feb 2017, 01:55 AM | #263 | |
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20 Feb 2017, 02:25 AM | #264 | |
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And of course I use ad blocker to the full extent possible. I have not seen ads in years on any of my email providers. So I say, let them "sell" my boring stuff to others for profit. I never realized I was so valuable. |
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21 Feb 2017, 12:29 PM | #265 | |
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I know of three free candidates of which I've signed up for two and will use one if I don't find something better. I hope it's ok to leave this link. My search for a free, 'private', 'secure' replacement ended here: https://www.privacytools.io/ cheers |
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22 Feb 2017, 06:52 AM | #266 | |
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23 Feb 2017, 11:29 PM | #267 |
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It is kind of sad to say goodbye to fastmail, especially with a small investment ending up with a thousand dollar headache of changing email addresses.
But there is a good ending: finally doing the right thing and getting a personal domain. And doing that is much easier today than in 2001, and I also know that I don't want mylastname.com which is what I would have purchased then. So instead of mylastname@fastmail.fm, I will get the preferable shortasiwant@mychoiceofdomain.mychoiceoftld. After getting a personal domain, you need to be able to get email. As far as I know there are (at least) three options: 1) Run your own mail server. This is another thousand dollar headache, no thanks for a user that only needs basic email services and expects no privacy in email communication. Using one of the free big providers as a backend is fine for me. 2) Use an email provider that allows personal domains. There are a few that will do this for free(currently at least Zoho and Yandex), and probably always will be. You might have to change providers from time to time to keep free(beyond domain purchase) service. This also requires a little bit of playing with your domain records. 3) Have email forwarded automatically to another email address. This is easy to do when purchasing a domain from Google Domains for example. Any free backend for another email address to forward to will be fine here, and there will always be plenty of those. A .com, .net, .biz, .org, or .info domain costs $12/year with free private registration and email forwarding for 100 users to any email address. So with 3 friends the new cost will be $3/year with a (hopefully more chance this time) lifetime email address. |
24 Feb 2017, 10:47 AM | #268 | |
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In all seriousness, though, it's not as far-fetched as you might think, and it doesn't even have to involve a big falling out. I'm still maintaining a domain name that I registered for my now defunct business 20 years ago, and I let a few friends have email addresses on it at the time. Some of them are still using those addresses to this day, even though I've all but completely lost touch with most of them. However, I've been a nice enough guy to keep the domain name active and was fortunate enough to have been able to get it in on Google Apps for Domains back when there was a free version available, so it's not costing a huge amount of money, but if I was relying on cost-sharing to pay for it, I'm not sure how many of my old friends would still be interested in keeping it active. |
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24 Feb 2017, 01:44 PM | #269 |
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I assumed most FM users had their own domains. Guess I was wrong.
Wonder if there is a breakdown of stats. Would be interesting to see. Domain name is much cheaper now. No longer $35 a year. So, it makes a lot of sense to have your own. That way, if any provider really jacks up the price, you can just move to a more competitive one. I had a lot of friends used to pay $10/month for dial-up line for many years just so to maintain that email address until they could be reasonably sure they no longer needed that address. For 5 years, that's like $600 down the drain just so not to lose emails. |
25 Feb 2017, 12:31 PM | #270 | |
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I certainly think people on the new plans and pricing thread ought to be reconsidering their probability structure on how long they'll get grandfathered pricing. |
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