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    Unhappy RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    My emailer est mort. It polled for its final emails an hour ago and is now - well, a phone.

    Scoff if you will but I always hoped I'd live to see the day I could use its future-ready smart card slot.

    RIP old buddy.
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    Quote Originally Posted by Ephesians
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    Your fired !

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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    I remember selling these things at The Link, crappy things they were too Yours must have had a good innings!

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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    Like a number af Alan Michael Sugar TRADing stuff, it was innovative and in some ways ahead of its time, but overtaken by events. The Amstrad PC was pretty nifty with the (IIRC) GEM operating system, and the Amstrad amplifiers of my youth were cheap and accessable (although the build quality was abysmal, and the sound quality not much better - but hey, good enough for Led Zepplin!

    But that is a good innings for the em@iler!
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob_B View Post
    I remember selling these things at The Link, crappy things they were too Yours must have had a good innings!
    A good innings indeed, & it'll always have a home here As to crappy, it had more useful functions than most of The Apprentices..


    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    Like a number af Alan Michael Sugar TRADing stuff, it was innovative and in some ways ahead of its time, but overtaken by events.
    A very good summary & not a bad epitaph.

    The Amstrad PC was pretty nifty with the (IIRC) GEM operating system
    Got one of those here somewhere as well
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    We sent one of these down the tip the other week.

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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    Quote Originally Posted by Behemoth View Post
    We sent one of these down the tip the other week.
    think you would have been better sending a person, Em@ilers don't even have satnav, nevermind transportation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    think you would have been better sending a person, Em@ilers don't even have satnav, nevermind transportation.
    So that explains why it was seen hitch hiking to China.

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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    Going home to spawn a new generation! little sm@rtphones?

    Oddly there are still emails going into my inbox, when I log in online - not sure what it plans to do with them
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    Quote Originally Posted by sammyc View Post
    Going home to spawn a new generation! little sm@rtphones?

    Oddly there are still emails going into my inbox, when I log in online - not sure what it plans to do with them
    1. read
    2. answer if necessary, giving your 21st century email address so they can contact you again.

    either that or run to cash converters and get another em@iler or whatever the hell they are called that thankfully didn't catch on. thanking the greater power that Apple didn't make it because then we would all be stuffed calling emails Em@ils forever more.
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    no, no - i failed to explain. it's not my em@iler that is dead ie broken - the plug has been pulled on the whole Amserve em@il service. hence the unit can't collect. i assumed that it would all come to a synchronised end & only went to the webmail out of curiosity, & found it still going & taking incoming em@ils (maybe an overlap til the final utter cutoff). People have normal em@il addresses for me already - there were just reasons why my old ones were handy.

    So it's not just Behemoth's that's destined for the tip.


    /edit. and the bereavement has distracted me from noticing I've passed 2,000 posts - I could have had a party. And here's me with no BixMix in the house.
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    i have just eaten a full tub of cheeselets if that helps

    and my capslock light is stuck on, evEN THOUGH it is STILL doing SOMETHING when i press IT.
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    I had cling peaches earlier - we need someone with the arctic roll component.
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    Double post, damn silly phone.
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    Re: RIP Amserve Em@iler Plus

    To be fair when I said we'd taken one down the tip I meant myself and a friend as it was his e-mailer, I've never owned one and personally never really saw any need to have one. I could see why people would want them just to send e-mails and so on if they didn't require a full on PC with full on internet.

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