[Waverley ARS] FW: RE- ISP bandwidth

[Simon Buxton]

Eddie

There is usually no reason to ever want to upload with your old ISP. You 
can send all messages, irrespective of your sending email address via 
any smtp service that you can log into for access (usually your current 
ISP). Your "from" address on an email can be anything you like - no need 
to use your "official" address unless you want a reply; spammers do it 
all the time by faking someone else's address. In practice one normally 
sets the appropriate "from" email address for each email account in your 
email program.

Charging to send email forces you to open an account, otherwise it would 
be a field day for spammers if free upload was available without paying. 
I believe there a few "open" mail servers where they don't care, but no 
self-respecting ISP would allow the practice.

73 Simon.

Eddie Hanham wrote:
> Dear George,
>
> Last time I changed was over 10 years ago and I could access the 
> previous Post Office Ozemail for over a year for reading emails but 
> would have been charged to send, on a per monthly useage basis.
>
> Funnily they didn't charge me for download only upload - strange. 
> Mightn't be the same now.
>
> Eddie
>
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