{"id":475,"date":"2002-03-21T08:39:36","date_gmt":"2002-03-21T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/21\/new-e-mail-addy\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:40:44","slug":"new-e-mail-addy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/21\/new-e-mail-addy\/","title":{"rendered":"New e-mail addy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16367,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mail.yahoo.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16368,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/idya.resource-locator.com\\\/index.php?p=56&amp;c=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16369,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15690&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15690&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16370,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/15690#246068&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050401031856\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/15690&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/15690\\\/YahooMail-to-start-charging-for-services&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 10:47:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 10:47:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16371,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.lycos.co.uk\\\/service\\\/lycosmail&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16340,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.myrealbox.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311013133\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.myrealbox.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 06:27:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 10:47:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 19:51:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 19:51:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always kept three active e-mail accounts. One I only give out to my close friends and family, one I give to friends and contacts, and the third is the one I use publicly, on this page and whenever I sign up for anything via the web (this shuffles most of my spam to the public addy).<\/p>\n<p>Due to changes in <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.yahoo.com\/\" title=\"Yahoo! Mail\">Yahoo! Mail<\/a>&#8216;s terms of service, I need to discontinue using my @yahoo.com address. My new public e-mail address is djwudi@myrealbox.com.<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, parents, friends, or anyone who has either of my other two addys &#8212; you don&#8217;t need to worry, those are staying the same).<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.yahoo.com\/\" title=\"Yahoo! Mail\">Yahoo! Mail<\/a> sent out a notice to all of its POP3 service users (this allowed you to use an external client &#8212; such as the Mac OS X Mail program &#8212; to check your Yahoo! Mail account, rather than having to use the web-based client) stating that as of April 24th, they would <a href=\"http:\/\/idya.resource-locator.com\/index.php?p=56&amp;c=1\" title=\"Another good free service going down the drain.\">no longer be providing this service for free<\/a> &#8212; rather, you&#8217;d have to purchase a $30\/year &#8216;premium&#8217; account. Since I would much rather use my Mail client than have to use the web client, I decided to find a new public addy.<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/15690\" title=\"Yahoo! Mail to start charging for services.\">a thread on MetaFilter<\/a> discussing this, and one of the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/15690#246068\" title=\"Kino's comment about Lycos.co.uk.\">suggested<\/a> that we take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.lycos.co.uk\/service\/lycosmail\/\" title=\"Lycos' UK e-mail service\">Lycos UK<\/a>&#8216;s free e-mail, as it has the best free e-mail deal available on the web today (&#8220;&#8230;15 meg of storage, POP3 access, and importantly &#8212; SMTP access with unlimited attachment size for outgoing mail.&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>So, I stopped by this morning and signed up. Now I just have to ferret out all those places on the web that I gave my yahoo.com addy and change them over&#8230;(sigh).<\/p>\n<p><ins>Update:<\/ins> For one reason or another, the lycos.co.uk server was incredibly slow, to the point where it proved unuseable. I did end up finding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrealbox.com\/\" title=\"Now this one looks pretty good!\">MyRealBox<\/a>, which is run by the folks at Novell, and looks to be a truly good service. So&#8230;<em>that&#8217;s<\/em> the addy I&#8217;m at now.<\/p>\n<p><ins>Update:<\/ins> In the end, MyRealBox didn&#8217;t cut it either. As with many people, I&#8217;ve since moved to Gmail. If you really need to find me and don&#8217;t have my e-mail addy already, check the &#8216;about&#8217; page on this site to track me down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Yahoo is charging for their POP email access, I need to set up a new public e-mail address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2038],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}