BULLman Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 Thinking about changing internet providers. Currently have DSL from phone company. Used to be Verizon and now is Frontier. With the sale of Verizon to Frontier- We switched to AOL for email. I log into AOL to get my email. My email ends in @verizon.net. MY QUESTION is if I switch to Spectrum for my internet - will I loose my @verizon.net email address? Link to comment
Twisties Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 This is why I switched to gmail. Gmail, or similar that is not isp based will prevent this issue. Although I suppose Google could go bankrupt or start charging. The other option is to buy a url. Link to comment
BULLman Posted March 31, 2018 Author Share Posted March 31, 2018 I have a gmail and yahoo accounts I am just dreading switching everything (log ins) to another email address. Link to comment
elkroeger Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 I was on Yahoo for years. I got sick of the spam, and pornographic spam. endless piles of it. I got on gmail and never looked back. Switch your stuff over, tell your friends, then let the old account sit for a couple years before you think about closing it out. You will always have a couple friends or accounts that were forgotten. Link to comment
Bill_Walker Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 This is why I've used pobox.com for many years. It's not free (I'm not the product!), but their spam filtering and mail delivery is excellent, and I haven't had to change my email address anywhere despite changing ISPs. Link to comment
kioolt Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 If you have a Comcast email address this is what I found. As a former Xfinity customer, you can still use your Comcast.net email address if you logged into your account in the 90 days prior to disconnecting your service. Your email account will remain active as long as you access it at least once every nine months. Link to comment
szurszewski Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 If you have a Comcast email address this is what I found. As a former Xfinity customer, you can still use your Comcast.net email address if you logged into your account in the 90 days prior to disconnecting your service. Your email account will remain active as long as you access it at least once every nine months. This is very interesting as my mom has Comcast but does not use it for anything but wifi for her phone (and she's on my unlimited plan) and the email address. Link to comment
lkraus Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 We were on AT&T Worldnet dial-up from late '80s (beta tester, actually) until we dropped them in 2012 when Time Warner finally provided an option. The @att.net addresses (provided through Yahoo) are still working at no cost to us. They are given out anytime we suspect that ads and spam might be generated. The worst problem with Yahoo email was that contacts stored with them were periodically hacked, and spam went out to friends/family with our address in the "From:" field. But it's hard to complain when the cost is zero. We just don't store contacts on that system. Link to comment
LittleBriar Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Here is a thread discussing your question. Sounds like you can retain the @verizon.net address for some period of time but eventually you will have to switch to something else. So I would suggest you get an gmail or outlook account and start using it and at the same time wean off the verizon account. Link to comment
Sonor Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 + 1 on going with gmail or another "independent" email system. Though I have Spectrum (yuck), I have never used their email service for just this reason. Link to comment
LittleBriar Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Once you get one of those new accounts you can set up the verizon account to automatically send an "out of office" message informing them that you've got a new address and to change your contact info to reflect the new one. After a while, you'll stop getting email to the verizon account and that's when you can fully shut it down. Link to comment
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