Email
Gary Webb
provider) that people such as myself with existing talk21 email accounts,
can pick up email using the digibox? - Or will we have to re-register to
allow the service to distinguish between regular email and email via Sky ??
I think there may be a rush to get names registered with talk21 before the
easily recognised run out, i.e. gary...@talk21.com as opposed to the
un-user freindly 4_w...@talk21.com , for example (the latter address does
not exist)
Gary Webb
W W W.orcester (sorry!)
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>Will there be a charge for email? Are you susposed to send back a form or
>something?
>
> >Some of it is a bit confusing. I
>>already have an email address - is this something better? Apparently I can
>>get my email messages from my digibox.
>
>It depends on how well they design the software and if they charge for
using
>their email service. One main improvement I guess woulkd be you may be able
>to get your email for free, either by the digibox connecting to a freephone
>number, at BiB's expense (unlikely), or by downloading the mail from the
>satellite. The mail service will be provided by BT's talk21 at
>http://www.talk21.com
>However as BT are involved I would be not be surprised if somewhere down
the
>line they intend to make a lot of services use the phone lines so BT can
get
>even more money from their ludicrously high phone charges.
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John Burton
>Can I take it (assuming that Bt Talk21 is going to be the email service
>provider) that people such as myself with existing talk21 email accounts,
>can pick up email using the digibox? - Or will we have to re-register to
>allow the service to distinguish between regular email and email via Sky ??
>
>I think there may be a rush to get names registered with talk21 before the
>easily recognised run out, i.e. gary...@talk21.com as opposed to the
>un-user freindly 4_w...@talk21.com , for example (the latter address does
>not exist)
I would assume that they would register a new domain for this and you'd
be using that rather than talk21.com