M$ + Yahoo = Disaster for Y! Users

[James R. Sissel]

At 09:07 PM 2/7/2008 -0600, you wrote:
>On Thursday 07 February 2008, James Sissel wrote:
> > I don't mind paying them $20 a year for a 24x7 post office.  I download
> > everything from them every 15 minutes while my PC is running.  Better than
> > I could do at home.  I also don't mind paying the phone company for a
> > phone, the gas company for gas, the electricity company for electricity,
> > etc.  Sure, I COULD do all that myself ... but why?
>
>A better question is WHY spend the money for INCONVENIENCE?
>Why pay them to receive mail and give it to you every 15 minutes when you
>could just have the mail be delivered directly to you faster and cheaper?

>Why?  Because "while my PC is running" means my PC isn't running all the 
>time.  So if email came in while my PC wasn't running it wouldn't get to 
>me.  And my power here is often interrupted so much that I've got UPSes on 
>everything.  Running an email server here at home would be unreliable.