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Thread ID: 115232	2011-01-08 22:04:00	New Year! No New Yr Internet Plan?	gum digger (6100)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1168243	2011-01-09 03:40:00	Haha :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
1168244	2011-01-09 06:00:00	Data Caps? who needs them? My parents are with TrustPower Kinect (we changed from TelstraClear), and we have Fastest speed down and up, plus no data cap! unlimited. And i'm more than happy at the speeds. In Auckland?	gum digger (6100)
1168245	2011-01-09 07:56:00	Seems to be true though. Still, its there country not mine!	The Error Guy (14052)
1168246	2011-01-09 08:10:00	In Auckland? We live in Mosgiel, Dunedin. I mean as fast as our line will let us. Speed test shows about 6.20mb/s down and 800kb/s upload.	goodiesguy (15316)
1168247	2011-01-10 19:24:00	You should never use ISP email as your primary email address. because that's the only thing stopping me to change ISP.	gum digger (6100)
1168248	2011-01-10 19:44:00	Most ISP's will let you keep your address for around $2 a month after you leave them. I think my parents pay $4 to keep their @ihug.co.nz addresses, even though they left Ihug / Vodafone around half a decade ago :p	Chilling_Silence (9)
1168249	2011-01-10 20:55:00	You should never use ISP email as your primary email address . because that's the only thing stopping me to change ISP . Get a free non-ISP address (Gmail for preference - their anti-spam is great! - but Hotmail or Yahoo if you're not fussy) . Set up a rule in your email client to move all received mail addressed to your ISP address to a separate folder, while at the same time notifying all your contacts of your new address and requesting that they change their records . Then run with both addresses concurrent (but with your non-ISP address as the default) and monitor the slack buggers who don't use your new address (reminding them when you get an email sent to the old address) . After about three months you will find only a trickle of emails going to the separate folder . If you are subscribed to various mailing lists this is also a good way to be reminded to update them . Then stop retrieving your ISP email messages - anyone still using it is obviously not intelligent enough to be worthy of knowing you . :D At this point, you can change ISP whenever you want and you won't have to tell everyone your new email address every time!!	johcar (6283)
1168250	2011-01-10 20:59:00	Get a free non-ISP address (Gmail for preference - their anti-spam is great! - but Hotmail or Yahoo if you're not fussy). I tried getting Dad to do that when we switched to Telecom for Big Time, but he wouldn't have a bar of it as it looked "unprofessional". Didn't stop Mum, my brother and I getting Gmail addresses. And now, ironically, the person who needs the best email access can only read his email on his PC, while the rest of us are using IMAP :rolleyes:	pcuser42 (130)
1168251	2011-01-10 21:03:00	I don't like Gmail much, it's OK but I wouldn't want to use it every day. The Yahoo! mail that Telecom provides is very nice, the free versions aren't so good because you get advertising Same problem with Hotmail too. I think I'll stay with Telecom, get Flickr Pro for free too which is nice.	Agent_24 (57)
1168252	2011-01-10 21:14:00	I tried getting Dad to do that when we switched to Telecom for Big Time, but he wouldn't have a bar of it as it looked "unprofessional". Didn't stop Mum, my brother and I getting Gmail addresses. And now, ironically, the person who needs the best email access can only read his email on his PC, while the rest of us are using IMAP :rolleyes: name@xtra.co.nz looks less professional than name@gmail.com? :illogical If he's that worried, the next best thing is to buy his own domain (and use it via Google Apps - free!) so you get name@mydomain.co.nz. That way you get the ability to personalise your email address to your own taste, and, if using Google Apps, the online storage and spam protection you get with a Gmail address. Plus access to a heap of other free online services (including Google Calendar, Documents, Wave etc) - which you can choose to turn on or ignore. EDIT: And IMAP access.... And you can still change ISP whenever you want!	johcar (6283)
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