On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:59, you wrote: > Jim Cheetham wrote: > > Does anyone know of an NZ unix server co-operative? > > I'd settle for a decent stable long-term email address that I can access > using secure POP/IMAP. Maybe something easy like [EMAIL PROTECTED] That > way, I don't need to pay for my own domain name, and when I change ISPs > (which looks like it will happen soon, given my current ISP's behaviour) > I don't lose my email address(es). > > If a bunch of us joined together, it would be fairly cheap, no? Is it a > wise use of CLUG funds to set something like this up and charge, say, > $1/month ? (We're not exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel ATM). There is a difference between running a dns server to make the address resolve and filtering and forwarding the actual mail traffic. For the former $1/month would be a possibily, but for the latter, imho, nothing like enough to cover the set-up costs and the inherent risks involved.
One cannot but wonder if the owner of the domain family.gen.nz would care to run a nameserver so that names such as, for my case, sawtell.family.gen.nz would resolve. I quite like the idea of my home mail address being [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would she like to do that? I could then set up my own mail server, filtering and drop my existing address, which has a very severe dose of incurable spam-pox and needs to be euthenased pdq. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
