Bummer! GMX to ruin Mail.com

It was many years ago that I started collecting Mail.com email addresses. With domains like baptized.com and minister.com and even (through NHL mail) blackhawksfan.com, they were irresistable.

Unfortunately they used the buggy Outblaze software and interface, and there was effectively no spam filtering at all. I was very excited when, a couple of years ago, Mail.com started using AOL Webmail's excellent software, interface, and filtering system. If it had not been for the fact that I've used slow library computers so much since then, I would have used it a great deal more; with the exception of Gmail, AOL Webmail may be the most reliable and best-filtered in the business.

Unfortunately, though, it seems that the German outfit GMX- which already runs a buggy and poorly-filtered webmail service of its own- has acquired Mail.com, and is in the process of re-ruining it. Already the available domains have been cut back, and the process of migrating existing accounts to the gimpy GMX interface is under way.

It's a shame, but I don't think I'll be using all those neat email addresses anymore. I've had enough experience with my GMX account having been so deluged with pornographic spam as to be unusable simply because I very briefly used it for Yahoo Groups (no other webmail service I've used for those Groups have had any problems at all as a result), and frustrating me with its constant glitches and bugs to the point where I was ready to tear out what little hair I have.

I hope AOL, which briefly had a service called Tunome which used its excellent software and interface for "vanity" email addresses, gets back in the business.