[af_vet_rr]

Yes, I am sure you are correct. My ISP is a very well run local Coop phone company. But I think this is more than about man hours, I think it is about required record keeping on e-mails. Compliance with bureaucraps.

Don't use your ISP's email then. There are dozens of free email services on the internet. I've never used the email provided by my ISP because I change ISPs every few years.

[Texas Fossil]

I used the local telephone company because I like their personnel. I trust their techies. I don’t know a single large internet company that I “trust”.

Is that being paranoid? Not sure, but I have seen enough to be very cautious about the motives of the big providers.

I had e-mails frozen by ATT/Yahoo where they leave my local ISP. They froze all my e-mails with attachments to a @yahoo.com address (my daughter has one). It was because of a screen shot from a Technorati search that displeased the Dem Rats. It was almost a year before it got “fixed”.

I am looking for a replacement e-mail provider. Have been with this company for about 10 years, using the same e-mail address.