You aren't an idiot. You can register a domain name, flotsamblort.com, and have an isp handle the email for it. Charges very from isp to isp. So [email protected] goes to the isp's email system and you can get it via pop, imap, web, etc.
If you need to change isp's for some reason, you can. You get email from a different source but all your friends who email you use the same email address. During the change over there will be a slight period of time when your email could bounce, but it could be on the order of minutes if things go well. Doing this means you have an invarient email address. Talk with an isp/hosting service for details and cost. Does that make sense? --STeve Andre' On Sunday 21 February 2010 23:56:09 Matt wrote: > For a complete idiot, as am I, could you expand on that? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: STeve Andre' > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] New Email address > > > Anthony's point is that if you get your own domain, and then have > that point to something like optonline, you'll have your own email > address, and if/when you decide to move off optonline, you change > the pointer to a new address, and poof, you've changed the low- > level email system but the world still sees the same address, making > for a truly unchanging email system 'till you die, or email changes. > > --STeve Andre' > > On Sunday 21 February 2010 23:38:46 Bruce Markowitz wrote: > > Because I have never had to pay extra for this one. It exists. I never > > wanted to change my old address, that's why I kept paying the b*stards > > $16.00 a month, just to keep that address. Which I no longer can do. So > > be it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Anthony R. Gold" <[email protected]> > > To: "Thinkpad Mailing List" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:30 PM > > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] New Email address > > > > > On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:09:39 -0500, "Bruce Markowitz" > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> My new email address will be > > >> > > >> [email protected] > > >> > > >> It is active. > > >> > > >> I will change my email on the list shortly. > > >> > > >> AT&T, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that the "worldnet" > > >> email address will no longer exist, and email sent to > > >> "worldnet.att.net" rather than the "new" "att.net" will not be > > >> forwarded. > > >> > > >> Therefore, I decline to continue paying them $15.95 per month for > > >> the priviledge of changing all my email accounts. > > >> > > >> As usual, they are nothing short of stupid. > > > > > > Why would you want to move to an email address owned by your cable > > > company and how long before you need to change it again? Get a > > > permanent one. > > > > > > Tony _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
