[Magdalen] email transfer help/advice

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 16:30:35 UTC 2018


 I *have* Comcast mail (I think) but I use Gmail on whatever browser i
happen to be using for most of my mail and some server provided by Fat Cow
(which my website is on) for my business e-mail.


On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:49 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>Yes, Thunderbird is the current incarnation of what began life over 20
> years ago as Netscape Mail. I’ve been using it as my main email UI since
> those days.<<<
>
> Boy, was I a Netscaper in the beginning!  I think I dabbled in it in 1995,
> and went whole hog in 1996.  But come (in my case personally) 2008, after a
> few years of Thunderbird, the idea of webmail, repugnant to me till that
> point, became all important, as I had access to it wherever I was.  Though
> no longer an Earthlink ISP'er, I still do Earthlink webmail (it owns the
> few of us ix.netcom.com'ers that are still alive) for convenience, ie,
> it's the only address I've had since 1995, and I still get the occasional
> email from someone in my various areas of interest expressing surprise that
> such an old address still works.  I reply, I "still work", so, there you go.
>
> My ISP is Comcast, by default in this part of the world (Monterey County,
> CA).  But because I'm a flaming liberal, I enjoy the beloved peacock on
> many of its pages.  (Chimes, please!)
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
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