Plus.net close webmail service

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?id=EEZAFlAplABmgWAOaP

When will the incompetency end?

I fell out with plus.net, previously known as one of the best ISPs in England (alongside Zen, who are still excellent) when I used them for work and used the IMAP protocol so that email would be stored on their servers. There was a policy in place for staff to make their own backups, given that our dying charity couldn't afford a proper backup system, but this seemed like a great double safety net.

Seemed logical at the time, after all, what kind of pathetic ISP not only breaks such a mission critical system, but doesn't even make backups?

Answer: plus.net.

Now they've managed to break webmail, leaking addresses to spammers (the absolute WORST thing you can do as an internet service, good effort lads) and rather than fix it, they've admitted defeat and closed their webmail service. Much like when they couldn't work out how to recover data, they gave up and said it was lost.

Good job I vowed never to use them again, eh?

Here's an idea plus.net - you can't run an ISP, so give that up too, and do the internet a big favour.