-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Others that have survived the interweb's smothering presence are
 DD> Earthlink and Juno. There may be others - but those spring to mind
 DD> easily -- I have correspondents who still use those email addresses.

 TL> Yes, I still know someone with a Juno address. :)

 DD> With the advent of the World Wide Wait one could ditch the list of
 DD> local dial-up access numbers if trying to access messages away from
 DD> home.

 TL> Sometimes.  Some ISPs still have badly setup mail servers that are
 TL> unreliable from outside their network.

If one is messaging someone with an address in that network, surely. But AOL, 
Juno and Earthlink are like Gmail or Yahoo in that they are on their own 
server(s) and merely accessed by using someone's net to get on the Interweb. 
Even Excite - where I still have an email address of 
vladimir.ilyich{at}excite.com  Bv)= My user name there is Nicolai Ulyanov ..... 
so far no one has "got it".   Bv(=

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