On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:32:43 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > Maybe you guys can suggest other providers, or just provide > some thoughts on the two I've listed above.
I think a reasonably protective feature should be something like getting their own domain name in the email address. Otherwise, the email provider has a "barrier to exit" for a person who doesn't want to change their address all over the Internet. It doesn't look like lavabit supports that and fastmail.fm definitely doesn't (at least according to their signup form). > I'm assuming that `someone who you actually pay for service > as an actual customer' is going to have to be part of my > recommendation, and that something on the order of $10 > *per year* should actually reasonable to a normal person. The $10/yr looks pretty reasonable for lavabit but you only get 100MB of storage at fastmail for that. If you delete your mail on the server, then attachments shouldn't add up but if you don't you'll probably need the $20/yr level. That's still "on the order of" $10/yr but then so is my full hosting solution with is about $70/yr (apparently, according to the prices listed on hostmonster.com). Here's the problem I ran into: I wanted to be logged out when using Google as a search engine[1]. That meant not only no more GMail but also no more Google Reader. If these friends 1) subscribe to RSS feeds and 2) want to read them from multiple locations, they are going to need a solution for that. That's what really drove me to my own hosting solution. I needed to be able to install a web-based RSS reader, in addition to having an email provider. One idea is that these friends could band together and pay for one hosting account. Of course, if they each wanted their own domains they'd still be paying more than $10/yr. [1] I don't even use them for that anymore, so it seems kind of moot, but with their web bugs and trackers all over it really isn't. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
