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Unfortunately, the email service is a free addon to your bandwidth subscription, making credit for email not possible. I apologize for your inconvenience.  If you have any additional questions or need assistance please contact your local customer support center at 1-800-545-8926.

If you use Charter Communications for internet service, but another provider for email, heads up.  Charter is now requiring that all outgoing mail flow through their server. 

This change happened for us sometime late Tuesday.  Sure would have been nice if they had told us.

Oh, and by the way: Where I used to be able to unplug, head to a client, and plug into their network and send and recieve email seamlessly, now I have to reconfigure my outgoing mail server on all email accounts when I do this, since I can’t authenticate to Charter from a different network.

What a pain.  Are all ISP’s going this route?  It’s enough to get me to jump if not.

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Centralizing publishing ensures a consistent quality of what is published, but is often slow and frustrating. Decentralized publishing is faster and often more cost-effective, but can result in inconsistent quality, unless
rigorous publishing standards are adhered to.

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Flash could disappear from online advertising. Sound ludicrous?

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Amazon apparently has the agreement of the publishers to provide this feature. However, the Authors Guild is claiming that the standard agreements between publishers and authors does not give the publishers the right to use the works in this way.