I know two outfits that use the free forwarding services of iname.com, one is
Bairnet and the other is h.o.m.e. We chose the free forwarding addresses,
instead of paying for a fancier name. Even the free one has an option for
forwarding or storing the mail for web access. Even though the company changed
hands, they have honored the 'lifetime free e-mail address' so far. They did
drop the SMTP service, which we didn't really use anyway, since that was what
stuck their ad at the end of the messages. h.o.m.e. has gone through several
ISPs, but still kept it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. (earthling.net was
one of the free names available at the time.)
On the road a few times, I was glad to have a free web-mail account that had
the option of reading any POP mail account you wanted to access. That was very
convenient for reading mail without storing it on the local computer. Plus, the
web-based POP access lets you automatically read from a list of e-mail accounts
into one Inbox.
There are some free URL pointers, but the only one I have tried
(go.to/yourname, or come.to/etc.) puts your web page inside it's ad frame, which
is a nuisance, and some users may not know they can 'open frame in new window.'
I found it not worth it, so I have not advertised it. I set it up the Stockton
Historical society page on BariNet, since the address is long. The idea of a
simple come.to/sshs sounded good, but the ads made it to cumbersome.
-Ralph
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Cynthia Phinney wrote:
> Well, just today I was thinking that we had seen no problems recently with
> our MINT accounts. So much for that. I guess we were just lucky.
> As a union employee who deals with workers in a rapidly changing industry
> (electrical), I have seen the instability that happens with frenzied buying
> and selling of companies - such as is currently the state of the internet
> economy. It's a lot to stay on top of. Policies change, people change,
> attitudes change, facilities change.....
>
> I suggest that people look down the road a bit when they make their plans.
> For some who do not have e-mail addresses attached to a domain name,
> subscribing to an e-mail service that will invisibly forward your e-mail
> anywhere might be the way to go. Using one of these services you have an
> e-mail address for which you pay very little (pobox.com is one such
> company - so your address might be [EMAIL PROTECTED]). This way if you need
> to switch providers it is invisible to the people you communicate with. They
> are still sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] even though I am now having it
> forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't tried this
> method myself, but I know a couple people it has worked well for.
>
> I know we are thinking of getting a domain name for the Maine Fiddle Camp
> (for which I am the webmaster) because GWI recently changed our (free with
> our e-mail account) URL from www.gwi.net/fiddle to home.gwi.net/fiddle. This
> means we need to notify all the people who have linked to us (who are also
> mostly volunteers like I am) and ask them to update their links. Fortunately
> this happened AFTER camp, so we are a long way from designing and printing
> next year's brochures.
>
> In short - doing what we can to maintain stability in the changing
> environment might make a lot of things easier down the road.
>
> Just a couple thoughts!
> -cynthia
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