Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Dear GNHLUG, A couple of (non-technical) friends of mine have expressed a desire to move away from Google's services in response to the latest publicised

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-27 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: It seems like the obvious next line of questions, though, is: is going through a the digital version of changing your address a significantly- greater ordeal than the `real life moving' version? And, if it is...,

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-27 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.orgwrote: You *can* do forwarding with GMail (and the others, I presume), but you can't usually get forwarding if you use your ISP's address and then change ISPs. I've had my email address (a .name) for over a decade. It

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Dear GNHLUG, A couple of (non-technical) friends of mine have expressed a desire to move away from Google's services in response to the latest publicised privacy/security gaffe. The big question is where do I

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-27 Thread Bill Freeman
Your college or alumni association may offer a forwarder. Mine does. Since I'm an ARRL member, they, too, offer a forwarder. Those kinds of things could, however, dry up on you someday. As you can see, I'm still on gmail. Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-24 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:41 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: 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

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.org writes: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:41 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: 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

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-21 Thread David Rysdam
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

e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-20 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Dear GNHLUG, A couple of (non-technical) friends of mine have expressed a desire to move away from Google's services in response to the latest publicised privacy/security gaffe. The big question is where do I go from GMail?--I don't think I'm familiar enough with the options for me to be