XPost: alt.nl.kabel.athome, alt.vacation, athome.nl.netwerk
From: barmar@alum.mit.edu
In article <87989$4a97b8a8$d53372a9$23596@cache2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>,
"Skybuck Flying" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My mother asked me an interesting question:
>
> "What to do with her e-mail account when she is on vacation ?"
>
> I don't know if she will have internet access while on vacation... probably
> not.
>
> She is not so pc-savy...
>
> Also the whole point of vacation would be to be away from it all lol.
>
> Further more I wouldn't want my mother to be accessing her e-mail from a
> internet-cafe or so for possible fear of keyloggers and what not ?! ;) :)
>
> I sensed she is more or less worried that she might start missing e-mails ?!
>
> She and her "contacts" exchange pictures a lot... like family/vacation
> pictures and what not...
>
> So I think her fear of the e-mail box getting full is justified.
That depends on how much space her ISP provides, and how much she's
using already.
She could set up a Gmail account and forward her mail there.
>
> So I ask this newsgroup, and also hoping that ISP's are reading along:
>
> What can ISP's do to help my mother ?
>
> Maybe give extra e-mail box space while she is on vacation ?!?
I doubt they'll do that.
> Or maybe temporarely suspending the e-mail service.. so that isp's will
> notify other people that's she's on vacation and should retry later when
> she's back... ?!?
With Comcast you can suspend secondary email accounts, and that's what
will happen. But senders will just get a generic failure message,
there's no way to tell them that it's temporary or when they should
retry.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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