On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Neil Parks wrote:
> > From: "Kali McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I seem to be always telling people not to waste their time with
> > "free" ISPs. One gets what one pays for!
> > Even my hot shot brother in law who works for NASA in florida
> > had to send out "change of address" emails..
>
> This is why it is better to use a free email service (e.g. MailandNews,
> pop3free, myrealbox, etc.) than to depend on the email address you get
> from your ISP.
I think you missed the point. When your free e-mail provider
goes belly-up, you still have to send an e-mail to everyone who
uses that address to inform them of your new e-address.
I was [EMAIL PROTECTED] for over 8 years. Most of that time
it was a pay service. Once delphi decided to change from
subscriber based revenue to ad-based revenue, they discontinued
all the "premium" services such as web hosting, e-mail, telnet
access, etc. "FREE" stuff has a tendency of having short life
spans.
Another example, my "free" web-based [EMAIL PROTECTED] address
only lasted about two years before it they discontinued that.
The only way to assure yourself of a truly permanent e-address
is to register your own domain. You and you alone then determine
when that e-mail address "goes out of business." ;-)
Since Internic was unburdened of its monopoly on domain registration,
you can now get domain names in the range of $10-$15/year.
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(is) Steve Ackman
