On 2 Apr 2001, at 11:15, A.M. Holm wrote:
> Why is it that a service whose name makes it almost an embarrassment
> to use, seems to work flawlessly, while one with a particularly
> charming name like Crosswinds.net has so many glitches?
Because in time a service's capacity is overrun. An attractive name
will bring on more users at a more rapid rate than a name that is not
popular.
However, a good pop3 account with an awful name makes a good service
to subscribe to newsletters and other one-way lists.
> If I seem somewhat obsessed with the latter, it is only because the
> winter has been an especially hard one here in Atlantic Canada. To
> compensate, I have desktop wallpaper with a palm tree-lined beach,
> alternating with tropical sunsets, replete with more palm trees. My
> e-mail programme is Calypso, with its Caribbean ambience and the mail
> notification .wav files are choruses of "the mailboat's in" sung in a
> calypso fashion. In other words, I am heavily in denial.
LOL. I'll have to send you some Gulf breezes. :-)
> I do apologize for the above digression but if I have to shovel the
> driveway one more time, my new snail mail address will be "Aruba".
> :>)
Are sure you wouldn't melt there, Eskimo? :-)
Alan
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