LOL, you had me going there Thom, although I know you are being serious - sorry for your frustrations.  I am actually not sure if there is an email system that is "hassle free" or completely safe to use.  A while back I had a few email exchanges with a company that makes chocolate bars via my gmail account.  Then the next day when I signed back on to my emails I noticed my background theme had changed to....chocolate!  Not just the color of it, but actual chocolate chunks and swirling melted chocolate.  And then recently I was using my aol email account and had been writing about a particular topic....next time I go in there I see an ad on the far right sidebar that was about the very topic I had been talking about.  This sort of thing happens on Facebook too.  It's creepy really.

Rusty I too just ignore the "add your phone number".  In aol and gmail they aren't giving a deadline to do it or else you can't get into your emails or such....I don't know if that 7 days thing is just a bluff or if it really is for realz or what, but I can see how changing from one email system to another could be a bit of a hassle to do. smiley: eyes   


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