If the email service was free, when it goes away, you can't sue. No money = no contract.
Get a lawyer to explain this area if need be.
Anyone else tripping over the Verizon decision to end their email service as an ISP and turn it all over to AOL MAIL now? Seems you get one account changed to AOL, then Verizon assumes that means all have been changed over, and you can no longer access any of the other email accounts. This is particularly the case if you fail to transfer the subaccounts FIRST and instead transfer the main mail account FIRST. Verizon then claims it's in AOL's hands and AOL's foreign accent (Indian) help service blames Verizon and claim they still have the missing mail accts. Verizon says 'they now have our mail servers, so we can't do anything" and AOL claims nobody gave them those particular email accounts and ONLY Verizon can do something about it.
I see a class action suit coming out of this later as this debacle continues and grows.

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