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Cox Business views Email as a cost center that's a "required" function of having a business ISP service. It's not a money maker for them, so with the lack of the carrot, I'm surprised it still exists at all except the token account that you're getting. I don't think Cox has had Email admins employed for a number of years (I didn't know anyone when I left there in 2020).</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best Regards, </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Thomas Scott</font></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mar 30, 2025 at 10:45:57 AM, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">It’s worse than that. I use cox business here and they recently contracted with yahoo to handle all their email hosting for us business customers. Given the penchant for Verizon/yahoo/others to overcomplicate things, make interfaces that aren’t even fully (or moderately) accessible, I won’t use them unless as a last resort. Btw, gmail has been heading down this same path for a few years now but still aren’t nearly as bad.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Btw, what you are seeing is when a company becomes so large that they can ignore the customer base, thinking that said customers won’t have many usable alternatives. They fail to recognize one undeniable fact: the bigger you are, the harder you crumble under pressure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now, as for cox business, I have already informed corporate that because of their use of yahoo for handling all email services, I have moved any emails I have elsewhere. It’s just not worth the hassle. Thanks for the suggestion of FastMail as an alternative. Will be looking into it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Eric</div><div class="">From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Email services Dept.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 25, 2025, at 8:34 AM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello,</div><div dir="ltr" class=""> As many you now know Yahoo, who was acquired by Verizon back in 2017 and has merged with several companies to form a mega-corp has put out a new web interface which is terrible and caused me to seriously seek out an alternative to Yahoo. Verizon, famous for terrible customer service, has now become the business model for Yahoo users. </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017%E2%80%93present)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017%E2%80%93present)</a></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Does anyone use an alternative email client and do they like it? I have used Thunderbird years ago but it allows so much email you have to create filters to keep Spam out and receive normal email. And yes I will find my username and password for Proton Mail...</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">How do we continue to use Yahoo email without getting slammed by this giant company?</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">thanks,</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Greg</div></div></div>---------------------------------------------------<br class="">PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br class="">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br class=""><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" class="">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div>
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