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17 Jan 2014, 03:48 PM | #1 |
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ROCK.COM will charge for their email - NO MORE FREE
Just got (Jan 14, 2014) two notices in my inbox at rock.com. As of Feb. 15, 2014 you will have to prepay $30US per year to use their (free) email service. Bummer! Now the whole family has to change their logins at places like Amazon.com and all the other online stores we use.
They have a history of leaking to spammers the addresses of everyone you send an email to... and now they want credit card numbers too? Not likely. |
17 Jan 2014, 08:20 PM | #2 | |
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If you and your family liked the domain name because you are into rock music (or perhaps because you are geologists?), then I can see why the service might appeal to you. With that said, however, why on earth would you ever want to use a service that has a "history of leaking to spammers the addresses of everyone you send an email to..."? Sounds like good riddance (except maybe for the name, if you liked it). |
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17 Jan 2014, 09:30 PM | #3 | |
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Have you considered getting your own domain name for your e-mail purposes? By getting your own domain name you can avoid such problems in the future. Just a suggestion. David |
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19 Jan 2014, 09:59 AM | #4 |
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@communicant
The main reason I went with Rock.com was to keep spam out of our personal email account. This worked well for many years. Since it was used as a notification address or when an email address was 'required', it was only recently that the leak to spammers was discovered. A friend asked for suggestions on a free email account and I mentioned Rock.com. Whenever the personal account received an email from there we saw a spike in spam, which would taper off after a while... until the next time. The same happened when I sent from Rock to other known clean accounts. Anyhow, since they now want $$ that problem will be self-correcting. @EdinwolfPA Yeah... thought about it. It just doesn't seem worth the aggravation, especially when there are free solutions readily available. The biggest hassle is changing our profiles at all the places that 'require' an email address. Now that will occur regardless of the solution. Enjoy, Tom |
20 Jan 2014, 09:17 PM | #5 | |
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I look at it as cheap insurance. If I become dissatisfied with my email provider, I can switch to another one, while keeping every email address the same because I own the domain at which the addresses exist. Or I can even experiment with different providers to see which one is best. |
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21 Jan 2014, 03:12 AM | #6 |
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It's really difficult to update all of your correspondents to a new email address. Another reason to own your own domain. I have been waiting until i no longer get important emails at one of my old free accounts before I close it. It's been more than 2 years since I've given the old address to anyone. I diligently change my address to the current one every chance I get.
Despite all of this, I'm still getting an occasional important email at the old address. It takes forever to get everyone updated. |
21 Jan 2014, 03:26 AM | #7 |
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If your old e-mail account has a vacation auto-reply option, you can set it up to remind people you've changed your e-mail address.
If they still don't get the hint, at least you've tried. |
26 Jan 2014, 01:51 PM | #8 | |
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Exactly. Just register a domain at one of the registrars (I use namecheap) and for a minimal amount of coin you can have your own domain hosted on Microsoft's servers for free. Easy to setup as well. |
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8 Sep 2020, 08:19 PM | #9 |
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one thing about rock.com
if someone tampers with you email address like tris to login with the wrong password they give you the ip address of that attempt is there a way to get software like this with out useing rock.coms email provider? thanks
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10 Sep 2020, 06:33 PM | #10 |
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Welcome <<>> When I had fastmail they had a log of all logins,I dunno if they still do......
It IS useful!! |