Yeah, well that definitely sounds like a lot more than what she's been through.
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On Sep 13, 2024, at 7:38?PM, Bruce Bowman <bowman46118@...> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 06:03 PM, joseph hudson wrote:
Yeah, that's the issue, she's locked out of groups with the old email address and she's also locked out of her Gmail account. That's
I feel her pain.
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My wife and I moved some time ago, about 50 miles, to a place no longer served by my phone company. My email address was through that company, and I'd used it for something like 35 years.
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I gleefully - and unceremoniously - dumped their sorry butts, as they knew they were the only game in town in my rural area, and were thus overcharging me (and everyone else they served). You know how it is.
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Switched to GMail and tried to update everything in advance of the move, but there were accounts all over - many that I rarely accessed - that relied heavily on that TDS address. Took me over a YEAR to get things straightened out.
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One thing that I've never gotten fixed is my account with MicroSoft. I paid a substantial lump sum for MSOffice (not Office 365) so I wouldn't be billed for it as rentware every year. Now, every time I open a document, I get a warning that there's
a problem with my account. Thankfully, it's still working, but I've placed phone calls and used their online chatbots and there is apparently NOTHING I CAN DO to fix this.
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Never in my wildest dreams did it occur to me that simply getting a new email address could be this much of a pain in the a$$. My wife experienced much the same thing when she switched away from Earthlink (don't get me started on that one).
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Bruce
