SilvorX
Jul 25, 2002, 08:32 PM
was just looking around cnet n it looks like that the .mac petition one of the fellow MR peeps created was mentioned on cnet :D
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Apple Computer's plan to start charging for its Mac.com e-mail service has Mac owners scrambling for alternatives.
Even as a petition circulates to try to get Apple to change its mind, many users are shopping around for a lower-cost way to get their mail before Apple pulls the plug on the free service at the end of September.
"I am most upset because I felt I purchased this when I bought the OS," said software engineer Paul Causey, who has now signed up for a free e-mail account through Yahoo. "Each time I went into an Apple store, they sold me on the idea of iDisk and e-mail."
Although Apple never explicitly said that the accounts would be free for life, many Mac users had counted on it and were not happy when CEO Steve Jobs announced that, starting in September, the e-mail accounts will become part of Apple's $99 per year .Mac service.
While many are likely to go to Yahoo or Microsoft's Hotmail, a number of choices have emerged that allow Mac owners to still proclaim their love of the Mac despite their displeasure with Apple over the new fees.
Mac community site MacOSX.com is offering Mac fans the option of signing up for an address with that domain. The company is offering a variety of options ranging from Webmail accounts with 5MB of storage for $10 a year, to server-based e-mail accounts with 50MB of storage for $25 a year.
cnet article (http://news.com.com/2100-1040-946379.html?tag=fd_top)
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Apple Computer's plan to start charging for its Mac.com e-mail service has Mac owners scrambling for alternatives.
Even as a petition circulates to try to get Apple to change its mind, many users are shopping around for a lower-cost way to get their mail before Apple pulls the plug on the free service at the end of September.
"I am most upset because I felt I purchased this when I bought the OS," said software engineer Paul Causey, who has now signed up for a free e-mail account through Yahoo. "Each time I went into an Apple store, they sold me on the idea of iDisk and e-mail."
Although Apple never explicitly said that the accounts would be free for life, many Mac users had counted on it and were not happy when CEO Steve Jobs announced that, starting in September, the e-mail accounts will become part of Apple's $99 per year .Mac service.
While many are likely to go to Yahoo or Microsoft's Hotmail, a number of choices have emerged that allow Mac owners to still proclaim their love of the Mac despite their displeasure with Apple over the new fees.
Mac community site MacOSX.com is offering Mac fans the option of signing up for an address with that domain. The company is offering a variety of options ranging from Webmail accounts with 5MB of storage for $10 a year, to server-based e-mail accounts with 50MB of storage for $25 a year.
cnet article (http://news.com.com/2100-1040-946379.html?tag=fd_top)
