A little friendly editing: If Apple was giving a $69 discount on .Mac, the cost would be $30.

The work around for existing .Mac users is to buy the retail box and then use the serial number to update the existing .Mac subscription.

I'm about to sign up for .Mac at $69 and am curious what would happen if I bought two boxes and used one to renew in a year from now. $99 is a bit excessive, IMO. $69 is reasonable. Anyone see if there are any limitations on the time? I can see Apple not going much below $69 and it's nice to get that covered.

So, what are you using .Mac for. Why might I want one? I have e mail, my DSL is too slow to transfer files, maybe a web page.
Mark

Boy that would be a deal. Unless it's all SPAM like I get now. And I don't send out that address. I get less SPAM from addresses that I smear all over teh place.

Apple gets phished big a lot.

I want to use (and have used LOTS of trials) to do iSync and iDisk. The latter is available elsewhere, but I trust only Apple to the former (with some trepidation).

I heartily recommend fastmail.fm for email hosting. I probably would use their canned web pages etc for use with iPhoto.

I have used ,Mac since the outset.

I have found the service to be SPAM free and I do not have genuine e-mails filtered out by Apple.

In contrast, other mail systems I sometimes use to check for mail, such as those of my ISP, my prior ISP and Hotmail are unusable because of the volume of SPAM.

My own domains are also SPAM free. I certainly recommend registering a domain and paying for e-mail addresses if you want to be SPAM free but I am quite at peace with my family using .Mac.

Yeah, I second that. Very few Spam messages get to me. Maybe an average of 10 a month. Not nearly as much as some other's that I know.

Stop using your .Mac e-mail for porn sites!