On 20 Aug 2000, 5:50, Joanne R wrote:
> I read somewhere that I could get a bigfoot address for life and thought
> that it was a good idea. Would this be an address I could use for
> mailing lists ? I know there is sometimes restrictions on addresses used
> for these. Does someone out there have a bigfoot address and could
> explain better to me how I could send mail using this address so people
> would automatically reply to it ?? I did go to the website but didn't
> quite understand how.
A Bigfoot address is a forwarding address. The advantage of having and
using a forwarding address for all your correspondence, including
mailing lists, is that if you change providers and thus get a new ISP e-
mail address, you would only have notify the forwarding service to
change the destination address, instead of notifying hundreds of
correspondents as well as all the switching of mailing list addresses
to which you are subscribed.
Disadvantages? Free services never are as dependable as a local ISP
for which you have contracted. So if any of your mailing lists or
correspondents are critical to you, I would not use a forwarding
address for them. At least not from one of the free services.
Bigfoot is here:
http://www.bigfoot.com/
You will find other free forwarding services listed at the "Free Email
Directory" site:
http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_forward.htm
Configuring your mail program to use a forwarding address is pretty
simple. You need only insert your new forwarding address as a
reply-to or return-to address in your e-mail client's preferences.
Everything else in the preferences stays the same as your ISP's
configurations. Then all you do is notify others of your new
forwarding address. People send email to it and it forwards to your
destination address, which is generally your ISP address.
Most forwarding services will have instructions for you onsite.
Alan
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