I think the widgets need some help.  My first suggestion is to make the first widget screen to come up when pressing the widget button is "my widgets"  I should not have to go through or look at the preset widgets that someone else has chosen, many of which I have no interest in.

As far as the types of widgets, I would like to see

lottery numbers

an internet browser (since it is on FiOs anyway)

email

instant messaging

check my Verizon bill (and be able to pay it)

well that is all I have at the moment.  My thought is if all of these things are available on a cell phone, why aren't they available on an integrated TV/internet/phone system?????

I understand the profitability of advertising on web-sites. But I strongly urge Verizon to change its current corporate strategy which is making this site into one confusing billboard.

I don't care that the weather is 72 degrees and the Lo was 58 degrees, nor do I care that that information is brought to me by Weatherbug. I will never go there, nor will I consider going there.

Furthermore, I didnt ask to know that NYers are using an easy way to pay off their mortgages, nor do I wish to calculate a new payment for mine. I like it just the way it is. How dare you pray on your own customers, hoping they make an accidental click on useless links. Greed.

The reason google is a great search engine is because it does ONE thing better then any other.

I hope my plugs are bringing in the checks for the corporate machine.

Please put back the sign out button in the email inbox. Now you have to click home to sign out. I need to be able to get out after checking if an email has come in.

How about fixing the spam filter so that when I turn it off it is actually off? Also, how about worrying more about my incoming spam and stop rejecting the same email i try to forward as spam? Your system needs lots of work. I see a new provider in my future.



Is anything like this out there or can it be pieced together?

Background: I run a small business, strictly local, and selectively targeted to nearby Senior Citizens. I go to their homes and audio-record their spoken memoir. The recording is then transferred to a CD they can distribute.

I want to reach them and promote my service via email, but an email that goes beyond the standard capability of  email.

How this hypothetical service/application would work:

• Ideally, it has a “people search” capability to find the right sort of email addresses;

• The email consists of text, photos, and an “embedded” audio file. Overall, it looks like and functions like, say, the “Welcome” page of a web site. That is, the recipient would learn about my service. And, by clicking a “button” in the email, can immediately play a 20 minute audio-description of how their own spoken memoir would be made.

• As a supplement to this “button”, there would be another one to request a physical CD copy of the 20 minute audio file (snail mailed to them), and another “button” to simply email me directly.

I realize that it may be a major technical issue to combine what an email and web site can do. Nevertheless, there probably are a lot of businesses that would like to take advantage of the basic capabilities I’ve outlined.

Is it something you guys can do? What do you think?

Thanks,

Dave

I received an email in the email client on the myVerizon page. The email contains a phone number that I want to copy and paste into a document. I don't want to add it to my contacts, just copy and paste it. When I try to highlight the phone number in the email, I get a hover over popup with a link to "Add to Contacts". By itself, that's not a bad thing. However, the popup is sitting directly over the information that I want to highlight and you can't get it to go away. If I move the mouse it pops right back up.

I finally gave up and typed it into my document.

This may not be the biggest issue ever for Verizon (or any other ISP), but it's one of those annoying little things that can put you over the top on a bad day. I don't need any help going there.

Thank you for letting me vent. I feel much better now.

Steve.

Greetings,

Just today I received an email from an old friend, the content of which purportedly contained a series of statements made by then Senator Obama on Meet the Press on September 8, 2008.

I recognized right away that many, if not all of the things asserted were too outlandish to have ever been spoken by any of our politicians, let alone, then Senator Obama.

. . .  And I am a Republican - libertarian!

I thought the best way to set my friend straight was to send a link to the Snopes entry that debunked this scurrilous Spam message.

It was then that I discovered that the Verizon anti-spam filters would not even permit me to discuss this issue ??????

I could not get a Verison outgoing mail server to pass through an email despite a number of attempts to modify the message content ????

Apparently, I could not use as a subject matter "Fw:  Our President?"

Apparently, I could not send a message out even without a subject if it contained this link:

http://thebarbwire.blogspot.com/2008/10/did-obama-really-say-this-on-meet-press.html

I realize that, when I engage a private service that there is no First Amendment protection and that I have agreed to Terms of Service where, in effect, I agree to be moderated - essentially, I surrender wohat would otherwise be my "rights".

However; this sort of heavy-handed overly tight content filtering . . . that prevents even a reasonable discussion is dangerous in our so-called "free" society.

I do not like it one bit.

Respectfully submitted,

Joe Amodea

I'd like to be able to break up my list of e-mails into pages & be able to choose how many to show per page - 20, 50, 100, all. I used the check box about the list to select all the shown e-mails for deletion with the old (better/faster) version all the time, but now if I try, all the e-mails I am saving are also selected. Picking through twenty at a time to delete what I want is easy. Making sure I don't delete some old e-mail I want waaayyyy down the list is a pain.

If this option exists, please point me to it. I have not been able to find it.

I was told to post this in this section, I have no idea what good this will do here, but this is a few things that I can't stand about the new email. It seems that they could easily be added as an option 

1. Add an option to turn off the tabs for every single email I open.
2. When I delete an email, just simply delete the email...
   don't automatically check the box for the next email,
3. Why is every address and url automatically highlighted in an open    conversation?? I don't want a popup baloon to offer the option to    send email or add to contacts. Thats what copy and paste is for.You    cannot do that with the annoying baloon in the way.
4. I have been using Verizon for several years and absolutely love the    service and the cust. support, I do not want to use another email    client.
5. I cant export my contact list to any other client server. What's the    trick??
6. Session times out way too often. I want to stay signed in.

Verizon recently notified us that the security of our e-Mail address was violated, through their  arrangement with Epsilon. The message included guidance on how to protect ourselves from what was a Verizon screw-up, with no indication of what was being done. 

They seemed to pass the blame on Epsilon, but we never dealt with Epsilon. We hold Verizon responsible, since Epsilon was acting on Verizon's behalf. The message said nothing about corrective action.