What is going on over at Grapevine?

And now i guess grapevine has been bought by IINET, Is there any other local isp left ? Possibly Netspeed but the wait period on the phone is way too high !

Where are all the local isp of canberra gone !

johnboy said :

web based email might well kill user level smtp and pop however.

What’s that white thing in the sky called again….?

(yes, another nerd joke)

The frosty nights are giving the grapevine in my backyard a hard time too. At the same time the bigpond out the front has frozen over.
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Use some sort of webmail account. I access Gmail multiple times a day, and have done so daily for about the last 7 years. There has never been a time when I haven’t been able to access it when I’ve tried.

It also means you can change ISPs without losing your email address.

Social media and Skype serve a different purpose to email, it isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

johnboy said :

web based email might well kill user level smtp and pop however.

Interesting you say that. I haven’t actually log into my hotmail or gmail through their web interfaces for years, both are set up in my phone…

No idea what’s going on at Grapevine … probably more of a whirlpool thing.
Yes, you should give up and go to bed.
No, social media and skype will not kill e-mail.