Goodbye Juno email. They are starting to charge for offline client reading. I could pay the $10 a year, or just use my free Comcast address. I decided on the latter.
I am not a heavy emailer. There was a time when I would pour my heart into emails. Now I don’t. It’s more of a quicker way to make a phone call. Especially when I’m at work and just don’t have the patience to time to make a phone call. More or less “hey are we getting together for that movie tonight?” Or I might use it just to send a funny link to a friend. There is nothing serious about email. If you want to tell me something serious, call me on the phone or see me in person.
So no more Juno email. Can’t access it from their client at home, even though I’m not using any of their modem lines to get to it. I’m going through Comcast. You’d think that wouldn’t affect their bottom line. But somehow it does. Juno still allows me to access webmail, which I will periodically. However I’ve got all their ads blocked on their webmail site. So basically they aren’t getting any ad revenue from me.
I’ve had my Juno address since about 1995 or 1996 when Juno first came out. Free email? Yep, that’s what I needed when I was away from my Lipscomb email account in the summertime. It was good to me. But somehow you just don’t get anything for free these days.
Coincidentally, Thunderbird 1.0, Firefox’s version of email program, came out today. I’m using it. I decided on it because Outlook has too many vunerabilities. There are just too many viruses (viri?) written specifically to replicate through Outlook. I suppose if and when Thunderbird becomes really popular, virus writers will write more for them. The difference is that Thunderbird’s developers would be adept to fixing security holes than MS. Plus virus writers write viruses specifically to hurt the MS userbase.