[resending; first one seems to have vanished] Chuq wrote,
| C'mon, David, you sound like one of those "guarantee me nothing will ever | happen" whiners, and I KNOW that's not you. Sorry if I came off that way, Chuq. There are loud flag-wavers here for getting one's own domain as, even if imperfect, still indisputably superior in every way to any alternative. My point is not that having one's own domain leaves some problems incompletely solved and ergo one should throw out the baby with the bathwater; rather it is that there actually are some aspects in which -- and some people for whom -- a forwarding service has the advantage over a personal domain, that it's not always the cut-and-dried no-brainer decision that certain parties found it to be for them and thus assume that it is for all humanity. I readily agree, as I'll elaborate in my response to JC Dill, that someone who has a separate business purpose for licensing a domain name is already putting up with those problems anyway and might as well use that domain for a permanent personal email address as well; but if there is neither a business purpose nor a pressing vanity need to have one's own domain the scale just might tilt in favor of a forwarding service or a big publicly accessible provider. It does for me; it does for quite a few others I know. You said of having one's own domain, | It's all about knowing what you're getting into and managing your risks. The same applies to making the decision in the first place.
