Thanks for that very informative overview. ^ Your stats are fascinating.

I do dislike the various major providers, pretty well in accord with the reasons you've mentioned.

Right now, Comcast is generally working for me (although earlier today I just had a sent email returned from a longtime correspondent ). I've experienced problems over the years with email from such exotic foreign places as Canada and Australia either returned to senders or simply disappearing into their spam filters, with Comcast techs at times virtually blaming me for corresponding with such dodgy sources as, for example, Shaw, one of Canada's major providers. Their various excuses go on and on, but it's never their fault.

I even had a Comcast rep tell me that email was a free service to Comcast subscribers that I wasn't really paying for, so I really had no right to complain.

I'll have to take a look at Fastmail. There's no question I'm in a rut, and dread the nuisance of changing emails after a decade or more with my comcast.net address.

In closing, I'm glad you got my little joke. You're the second IT guy I've met with a good sense of humor, the first being my son. Come to think of it, you might appreciate my jokes more than he does.