bye bye earthlink

[ceagle]

In a long anticipated but bittersweet step, today I am cancelling my long-held Earthlink account, having had it for some 27 years.

Why?
A number of reasons...
- Massive amounts of Spam and not very good spam filters
- Continual raising of their prices
- Interference with my account (continually messing with my passwords)

Those are the main reasons. I have already missed (for a while) some other things about having a 'classic' internet account.... it used to have dial-up access and web space, which all olden-day internet accounts had. I'd already phased those out.
It also was nice to be registered as C Eagle, which might not be too easy to attain these days, since just about everything requires a cel phone or the like to register.

But... it will be one less expense, having gone from $27 a month for a full fledged account, then to $5 for an email only account some years ago, which they have now more than doubled and continues to rise... for something I don't even use any more...

So, .. goodbye Earthlink!

Comments

[gremy.livejournal.com]

My family and I pretty much left classic internet behind ages ago. I do still have my old Roadrunner email address from before they became Spectrum.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Thats very cool, .. I enjoyed all the roadrunner/coyote art that was about when it was a big internet deal.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I feel your (nostalgic) pain!

In 2008 I finally dropped my old dial-up isp: IDS. Verizon had put fiber optic lines by the house and I was tired of the 33K connection my 56K modem was pulling. When I called the company to cancel they couldn’t find my account even though I was automatically debited monthly for access.
“What’s your account number?”
“I don’t have one. Look me up: tj@ids.net”
“That’s not in our database… blah blah blah we’ll look into it”

I dropped the debit card so they couldn’t bill me anymore, and three months later the account was deactivated.

Good luck then :o)

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the good wishes! Wow... well you got away about 15 years before I did :D

I used to have some cool very short URLs and emails too like that ....lovely stuff!

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Be sure to keep any emails or anything else to document the account closure. When I closed off my Earthlink/Mindspring account 7 or 8 years ago, it was a big pain in the butt to get done. And they kept trying to bill me for access for months after it was closed.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Thanks a bunch for the heads up! .. If anything gets fishy, I'll post about it here... luckily I had a pay-by-mail account, but I s'pose they could still send bills :D
At one point I would've missed being there, but I've gradually stepped away and migrated everything elsewhere (I hope!)