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Tuesday, 28 January 2003
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Tuesday, 28 January 2003 06:00Rats, my computer just crashed again when dialling up to the Internet. Maybe it's the dialler I use rather than the memory.
You have mail
Tuesday, 28 January 2003 07:36I just got email from mail.com saying that my forwarding was about to expire and that they couldn't renew automatically because the credit card I had given them has expired, too.
Rats.
I've had that address for ages. When I signed up, one could choose from a whole bunch of domain names. Later on, only iname.com was free and the others you had to pay for to get an address under that domain. But forwarding was still free.
Then they started charging for email forwarding. Why? That shouldn't take their processors much time? (My guess: because people reading forwarded email don't see ads.)
And then the email says "renew now for only $14.95, that's a 25% discount off the standard price of $19.95". 20 bucks a year just to have email forwarded to me.
But that address is too widely known for me to let it expire, and I'm not going to check my email via their web-based form all the time. It's annoying enough that I have to check my Hotmail every month or they'll can the account as they've already done a couple of times when I forgot (and all my messages went down the drain -- I don't get that many or I'd probably check more often but the ones I save I would rather keep).
*sigh* So I headed over to their site and updated my credit card information. I was a bit surprised that they didn't ask for the card verification number or whatever this extra number is called that more and more online credit card processing sites require. And the site said the service was only $9.95 rather than $14.95 or $19.95. We shall have to see.
( That reminds me... )
Rats.
I've had that address for ages. When I signed up, one could choose from a whole bunch of domain names. Later on, only iname.com was free and the others you had to pay for to get an address under that domain. But forwarding was still free.
Then they started charging for email forwarding. Why? That shouldn't take their processors much time? (My guess: because people reading forwarded email don't see ads.)
And then the email says "renew now for only $14.95, that's a 25% discount off the standard price of $19.95". 20 bucks a year just to have email forwarded to me.
But that address is too widely known for me to let it expire, and I'm not going to check my email via their web-based form all the time. It's annoying enough that I have to check my Hotmail every month or they'll can the account as they've already done a couple of times when I forgot (and all my messages went down the drain -- I don't get that many or I'd probably check more often but the ones I save I would rather keep).
*sigh* So I headed over to their site and updated my credit card information. I was a bit surprised that they didn't ask for the card verification number or whatever this extra number is called that more and more online credit card processing sites require. And the site said the service was only $9.95 rather than $14.95 or $19.95. We shall have to see.
( That reminds me... )