International POP3 downloads

[kaspaas]

Hi,

I'm considering getting a virtual server in the USA for my E-Mail. I simply can't afford to pay the local ISP's the rates they require to feed Telkom.

About a year ago, POP3 was declared as abusive usage by Telkom, and one could not download E-Mail from the USA reliably at all.

I notice on the new website that POP3 is no longer considered as an abusive activity.

Does anybody have recent experience downloading e-mail from the USA?

Thanks

PS: I hope Telkom gets the message soon: Local bandwidth is still far to expensive compared to international norms. Unless you drop the pricing of local bandwidth drastically, more and more people will move their servers overseas - and consume more of the precious and expesinve international bandwidth.

I intend moving about 2GB per month traffic overseas. There I can get 1 TB per month for less than I can get 2GB locally. It breaks my heart not supporting a local ISP, but in the end, the cost just becomes a serious problem.




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[sss]

how is pop3 abusvie? this makes no sense

GSI 16VS

 

[kaspaas]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by sss</i>
<br />how is pop3 abusvie? this makes no sense

GSI 16VS
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Ask Telkom: POP3 was classified with p2p apps when they started to assign priorities to services.



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