WHY?! Are you serious?

First, your ISP is going to use this as a hook tactic.

If you get an email account with them, get established, telling everyone [friends and family] what your email address is and you sign up on every website you run across using that address, it’s going to be a show stopper when you want to switch ISP’s; AND YOU WILL.

You need to be looking at web-based email [Google, yahoo, Hotmail and many others] accounts as your default account. They are global, they’ll have your address book. You can get to it from any place that has Internet service. It makes perfect sense.

If you stick with your ISP, when they close your account, or they upgrade your account and loose your email addresses; and they’ll do it. There’s always glitches and the shallow ‘sorry, it was an accident’. Or maybe you were using that web account for email, they are going to close it. They don’t value you, they don’t care and that information, all of it, will be lost.

Think of managing your email like this; you should always have at least 2. One for all those brochures, forums, sweepstakes or anything that’s asking for a email address [to sign up for something]. The second account should be for your friends and family; hopefully you won’t get bombarded with family spam…

Now having stated this, you can see how easy it would be to just walk away from your current ISP and cancel service with them for a better provider… and you will. It’s just a matter of time. So, if you don’t do this, start; start now. This is a simple solution and users should never feel they are tied down to their ISP.

Enjoy.

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