another.com charging

A lot of IFIS users have another.com addresses

another.com have just decided to give you about 3 day's notice, holding your
email to ransom, as they're going to start charging 15 quid a year for their
services. There are ISPs who give you COMPLETE internet access, email, news,
web, the lot, for less than that! The only advantage another.com have is their
extensive selection of amusing domain names... Oh yes, and if you registered
your own domain name through them, they own that too, and you're seriously
unlikely to be able to transfer it elsewhere in time, if ever. :-(

Loverly!

If anyone wants an ifis.org.uk email address, just ask me. It'll cost you the
paltry sum of renewing your IFIS membership every year, and it can be
forwarded to whatever REAL email address you happen to want to use at the time
- EG you could have a temporary AOL account, forward your IFIS mail there,
then change to a temporary demon account, and forward the same ifis address
there, maybe decide you'd rather use postmaster.co.uk or yahoo, and switch
your ifis.org.uk forwarding there - and people need never know you've changed
as they can seamlessly mail yourname@ wherever you happen to be at
the time!

For example, I'm nick@, and I'll probably always be
nick@ unless I ever decide to stop being an IFIS member (hey,
stranger things have happenned!). It forwards to one of my "real" addresses,
and if I ever change, nick@ will forward there too. I'll admit
yourname@ isn't quite as cool as @shagadelic.co.uk or @horny.co.uk
or @2hot2handle.co.uk, but it's a fifth of the cost, and anyway, if you wanted
your own domain, I might be able to sort that out cheaper than another.com too.

Let me know what name@ address(es) you want, and where you want
them forwarded. If you ever want to change the forwarding, let me know. Then
just keep paying your annual IFIS membership. An "address for life", simple as
that.

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Nick Waterman, IFIS Information Superhypewayman
nick-sig@ www.ifis.org.uk/ http://noseynick.org/
Always draw your curves then plot the readings.

your
their
news,
their
registered
Yeah, I registered 2, not to mention the fact that I have 4 accounts. And
one I use for jobhunting. And I have no money until my redundancy pay comes
in. I am not happy.

I think the thing that bugs me most is the three days notice. I've been
using them since they were funmail, and even click on their banners
occasionally. The word "bastards" sort of springs to mind, and to be
honest, the way they've gone about changing to paid services has almost put
me off paying for any of it. They're not quite in the same league as
Crosswinds (Hey, lets delete everything on your webpages and then try and
charge you for it...) though.

Love,
Lizz

I have to say I was most peeved at the tone of the way they asked for people
to pay as well. It was like "nothings free, so pay up, or sod off". Didn't
engender customer loyalty in me.. so bye-bye to linette@, and the
other addys I have... I wonder how long it'll be before they crash and
burn?

Linette

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lizz Raikes" <inquis@>
To: "chat" <chat@>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: another.com charging
seriously
comes
put

I suspect that impending financial crash and burn is probably the reason why
they have started charging for the service, to try and avoid going into
liquidation. However, 3 days is a bit pi**poor for notice.

why
I don't think the "why?" is really the issue, it's the "how" that's
frustrating. The email they sent round was quite reasonable, but every time
you log in, it comes up with this page telling you about it, which is very
blunt, and Linette pretty much summed up what it said.

Not to mention I sent them an email to ask some sensible questions, and they
haven't replied yet. Not even a "We hav your email, please be patient" type
thing. And that's just rude.

Love,
Lizz
*disgruntled*

Linette Voller wrote:
> off".

Someything like "what would you do if we started charging? laugh? cry? walk
away?" - sounds like good advice to me! :-)

They're auctioning off a huge bundle of their domains on ebay too. Must be
desperate for quick cash.

> Didn't engender customer loyalty in me.. so bye-bye to
> linette@, and the other addys I have...

... and hello to linette@ I notice :-)

> I wonder how long it'll be before they crash and burn?

As I said, they would appear to be desperate for cash. I'm sure I'd find them
listed at f---edcompany.com except their search-engine says "another" and
".com" are too common and can't be used as search terms :-)

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Nick Waterman, IFIS Information Superhypewayman
nick-sig@ www.ifis.org.uk/ http://noseynick.org/
Do it only with the best.

-----Original Message-----
To : chat <chat@>
Date : 19 February 2002 16:22:53
Subject : Re: another.com charging
I have to say I was most peeved at the tone of the way they asked for people
I have to say "me too". This address is going to be deleted along
with all my other addresses, so the mail is reflected back to the
original user.

At least my other (paid) E-mail address is easy to work out.
If any of you want to know, it's "simon@".

By the time you read this, this mail address will be gone.

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Get personalised email addresses at http://another.com

Simon said:
Lucky your Information Superhypewayman was observant enough to switch your
IFIS list subscriptions for you.

If/when anyone else is nuking their another.com addresses, could you let me
know where I should send your IFIS chat/announce/etc email please? Ta!

Nick

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Nick Waterman. Senior Systems Administrator, Research In Motion
mailto:sig@ http://noseynick.com/ http://www.rim.net/
#include <stddisclaimer> Sent from my Blackberry Wireless Handheld!