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Can i transfer email address?

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  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    TonyMMM wrote: »
    You will get new email addresses from your new ISP, but you can carry on using your old Orange/Freeserve address alongside if you want ....no problem. Just acces via webmail, or set it up as an additional account in Outlook etc.

    we have already seen posts here where Orange close down the accounts of ex customers
  • S0litaire
    S0litaire Posts: 3,535 Forumite
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    I've had a freeserve account since they started and moved it over to pay-as-you-go assoon as i left them. so I just need to dial in a couple of times a year, and log in to the website to keep it active.

    You could try this:
    If they still do pay-as-you-go accounts, wait till they close your paid-monthly email account then start a pay-as-you-go account with the same details. You may loose a few day's emails between when they close one account and let you use the address in a new account.
    Laters

    Sol

    "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
  • If you know you are moving, start giving people your new email address now while you have access to your orange account too.

    I'd recommend Gmail or registering your own domain as mentioned previously here (a .uk name costs £7 for two years, Google Apps is my tool of choice and is free).
  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    S0litaire wrote: »
    I've never had a problem with them over the past 2 years!
    I'm a heavy user and never had a problem.

    No offence, but ~100GB/month isn't particularly heavy. It's not light usage by any means, but it's probably about average for a house with a few people in it who use the web for more than browsing and email.
    Their are reports of them blocking heavy users access to "Rapidshare" and other Dropbox download sites. But they have never throttled P2P.

    Blocking completely, not throttling? That's outrageous. Either way, throttling would be just as silly. Throttling a one-way download which will transfer the file once and only once, but not P2P which could potentially transfer the file dozens, hundreds or thousands of times?

    Their FUP specifically say they'll throttle P2P if you use it too much. Whether they've felt the need to or not is another thing, but blocking sites is a bit of a !!!!take. Are you sure it isn't the IWF block list in play?
    They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it
  • S0litaire
    S0litaire Posts: 3,535 Forumite
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    It's not a IWF block. It's certain heavy users of sites like Rapidshare, they get routed through a different server that blocks those sites if they use them too much.

    It's based on BT's "CleanFeed" service, where they route your request to a "dead" Server instead of routing it to the desired location so the user thinks the site is down rather than getting a "forbidden" message.

    They then see if the users got their by mistake, (they go there once and don't retry.) Or if they are repeated users who try again and again to access a site routed through the broken server.

    It's not related to any IWF block or list.
    Laters

    Sol

    "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    wow, that's pretty crappy. Especially for people who've got paid accounts with RS etc. They're not even honest about it.

    Of course there are ways round it, but people shouldn't have to bypass limitations their ISP sets for no good reason. :/
    They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    S0litaire wrote: »
    I've had a freeserve account since they started and moved it over to pay-as-you-go assoon as i left them. so I just need to dial in a couple of times a year, and log in to the website to keep it active.

    You could try this:
    If they still do pay-as-you-go accounts, wait till they close your paid-monthly email account then start a pay-as-you-go account with the same details. You may loose a few day's emails between when they close one account and let you use the address in a new account.

    dial in? I havent had a PC with a 56k modem in years!
  • TonyMMM
    TonyMMM Posts: 3,423 Forumite
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    custardy wrote: »
    we have already seen posts here where Orange close down the accounts of ex customers

    Not always so ....I was originally with Virgin dial-up, then Freeserve/Wannado/Orange .... and have carried on using email accounts with both although I have been with another ISP for a long time (years) ....as long as you access them regularly they will stay active.
  • S0litaire
    S0litaire Posts: 3,535 Forumite
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    custardy wrote: »
    dial in? I havent had a PC with a 56k modem in years!
    That's the good thing of having an old laptop laying around.
    it's got a 56k modem in it ^_^
    Laters

    Sol

    "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    S0litaire wrote: »
    That's the good thing of having an old laptop laying around.
    it's got a 56k modem in it ^_^

    suppose i could dig out the dreamcast :D
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