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Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Err...
So, what's the problem, exactly? Just take the ad-based free service. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. are ad-based free services too. Nobody is forcing them to change anything.
The problem, presumably is that they will be canning IMAP/POP/SMTP and will be implementing a sucky web-only interface
Wtf, that's evil
A lot of places no longer have staff that understand email systems or routing.
Even technically-inclined Universities like Purdue have abandoned their on-campus email systems and now rely upon Office365 and GMail.
Fair enough