Re: [DDN] Verizon Wireless announcement re. shutting down SMTP service
Verizon Wireless has announced that it intends to cease providing SMTP service to its broadband customers snip) Are you sure this is correct? I understand Verizon intends to stop SMTP relay services (mostly not needed by today's ISP's who allow outbound mail from non local IP's) however I do not believe they intend to stop providing SMTP services to broadband customers. This would only impact people who try and send mail hosted by a different ISP, and the ISP does not allow mail delivery through a non local IP. Don On Tue 28/07/09 11:00 PM , christian stalberg cstal...@stalberg.net sent: Verizon Wireless has announced that it intends to cease providing SMTP service to its broadband customers ffective August 29, 2009. For those of us who live in rural areas, Verizon Wireless broadband service is the only ISP service available. To lose SMTP service - which is primary to all ISPs - will cause me and others in rural areas irrepairable harm. The Verizon announcement can be vised at http://support.vzw.com/information/smtp_shutdown.html [1] This is an extreme hardship for me as I use email clients on my personal computer to manage my email. Web mail SMTP service is not an option. I have several domain names that I use for my email addresses to conduct various business and webmail is known to not easily support use of multiple domain names in its addressing. Please contact your state telecommunications authority and Verizon Wireless regarding this matter. Thank you. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide [2] To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. Links: -- [1] http://webmail.internode.on.net/parse.php?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.vzw.com%2Finformation%2Fsmtp_shutdown.html [2] http://webmail.internode.on.net/parse.php?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitaldivide.net%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fdigitaldivide ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] why not googlegroups - Re: The future of DDN
Claude Almansi wrote: Yes, the e-mail list is stifled. But isn't it because people hesitate to post to it because they don't know when the post will get through? Yes - and another silent witness here :-) I tend not to contribute to DDN for the above reason, however still follow discussions with interest - Seems to me this current thread on moderation might be overly comparing list moderation to the role of policeman or headmaster scolding noisy children. As a moderator with TechSoup, my experience lends to a suggestion that spam/ inappropriate post management is really a minor task (and as others have noted; easer to manage nowadays with the technical tools available); of more importance to moderation are tasks of maintaining list culture, supporting (and sometimes generating) discussions, ensuring the timeliness of posts and working to promote the lists and forums. Don ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC
Reinvent the word, not the concept, because the word telecenter does not convey meaning to anyone who doesn't already know what it means. Whereas community computing center does convey meaning even if you never heard the phrase before. IMO a Telecentre is best defined by the societal context in which it exists - Telecentre's in affluent society's tend to the model of an Internet Café - in less affluent places, as centres of civic interest and engagement, a communications centre, somewhere to meet, to train, to plan for business opportunity. A library and perhaps even a medical centre. In the later context computers may be less important than other of the services provided by a Telecentre. Don ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
