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@John2  If you logged in after clicking, recommend you ensure you're logged out, then log back in normally and change your password. It's likely that they've already captured the old one via a keylogger the first time.   Word to the wise: Never click on a link to login to anything from an email. It's also a good practice to 'hover' your cursor over any kind of link in an email to ensure it looks like it's going where you think it's going. Most browsers will display the url for the link in the corner somewhere.   ... View more

I'm pretty sure it's to cut down on political statements, potentially offensive tropes, as well as other offensive labels where people appear 'heavy handed'. ... View more

Unsure why a new email account can't be restablished with the old name unless there was a problem with it. This is done all the time. ... View more

Usually an email account is terminated because of spam complaints. That wouldn't be the case here, would it? ... View more

Remember that old joke: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" "Then don't do that" ... View more

Regarding high data usage, especially with regards to streaming: 1. Satellite internet by nature is a high latency system where the time it takes to make a round trip from you to any other location in the world is at minimum 525 mSec. That's based the laws of physics and determined by the speed of light the signal travels and the path the signal takes: From you to the satellite, then down to a ground station on the West Coast, then out through the internet to whatever site you're trying to reach, and the reverse path back to you. 2. That minimum latency time can be impacted by several other factors: Server delays at the ground station, propagation disturbances (weather or foliage attentuation, signal refraction, signal reflection, etc.), as well as any transfer delays along the internet path up to and including the server you're trying to reach. 3. Streaming is not like downloading a file in one shot. It's a semi-asynchronous and interactive process where you request a stream, the server starts to send portions of what ever media you're trying to view/listen to, and requires you to send an acknowledgement that you received that portion at the correct time and in the correct time sequence. IOW: many little files of a fixed size, rolled into one. 4. Depending upon whatever protocol the server uses, it may automatically assume that you never recieved the portion if an acknowledgement isn't received from you in a specific timerame, so it automatically resends another one even though it was successful. Since it was performed on your account, it gets charged as received data to your account, whether you actually used that data or threw it away as surplus.   The end result is increased data usage, just because that particular server wasn't designed for sufficient enough of a time delay that may have been attributable to normal satellite internet usage.   It's worthwhile to point out that the portions don't usually change with resolution, but because higher resolutions inherently require more data per visual frame, it increases the frequency at which an acknowledgement is required, therefore also increasing the probability of a missed acknowledgement.   Should also point out that when you have a lot of people trying to stream at the same time, it may cause a significant amount of congestion at the ground station, ironically causing extra unnecessary latency for everyone else using that ground station. Don't have to tell you the negative spiral that something like this causes to the system. ... View more