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Old 4 Mar 2019, 03:07 AM   #11
janusz
The "e" in e-mail
 
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Originally Posted by thisisnotgood View Post
When you are have an email with a company for 22 years and it's been free the entire time and you were not informed that one day they will charge you, you don't expect that to happen.
Did they inform you they would never charge? Facebook-style: "It’s free and always will be"? Or did you assume "free for life"?

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Originally Posted by thisisnotgood View Post
In addition,those scenarios you point out do not have you held hostage. You can switch cell phone carriers with number porting
You change your physical address (and/or name), which aren't exactly portable, and then go through all the necessary motions of informing all who should know. It's not exactly fun, but not a hostage situation either. People do change email addresses and survive.

Let's keep things in perspective.
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