XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/8/6 19:33:18, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
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   > ### 🧠 Best Practice   
      
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   > * Consider using a **permanent email provider** (e.g. Gmail or Outlook)   
   > to avoid issues later.   
      
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   I know many assume so, but I _don't_ think "Gmail or Outlook" _are_ a   
   "permanent email provider"; I'd be most surprised if there isn't,   
   somewhwere buried in an obscure part of the terms, some weasel part of   
   their provision that they don't guarantee it for ever.   
      
   In practice, if Google withdraw their email provision, it would cause   
   major world unrest. What they could always do, again to widespread   
   displeasure but probably would be acceptable, is start charging for it -   
   initially a small amount, maybe.   
      
   (I don't know about Outlook.)   
      
   The _nearest_ you can come to a "permanent email address" is to register   
   your own domain, and (this is a _separate_ activity, though in many   
   cases handled by the same company for convenience) pay someone to handle   
   that domain for you, such as handle mail to it. This is permanent as   
   long as you keep paying the registration fee. (Even then there can be a   
   _temporary_ interruption to your _use_ of it if you fall out with the   
   company handling it for you [or they go bust or otherwise cease to   
   operate satisfactorily]; if _you_ own the domain, you can switch hosting   
   provider, though it will take some time.)   
      
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