On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: =>>P.S. Which opens up the discusson - what do you do if you want a =>> permanent email address? I'm signed up at bigfoot and will likely =>> re-subsribe from that email/domain address. => =>I absolutely concur with what others have said about getting your own =>domain name. I've been lucky: my well.com address is older than my =>daughter, as it turns 15 in April; nevertheless, rumors of Salon, and, =>thus, the WELL doing poorly have me worried that some day The Demise may =>occur. In the meantime, my flyingtoasters.net domain is "mine" for the =>foreseeable future, and unlikely to change. What the others haven't =>mentioned is that if you ask real purdy, -and- have a broadband =>connection, -and- know someone with a static connection, you can sometimes =>talk them into some sort of dynamic DNS arrangement, and have your domain =>in your house. I've managed to set this up twice, now, through =>small-business-owning acquaintances who were willing to serve my DNS info. => I know that there are also places such as dyndns.com who do it for a =>relatively minimal fee, though probably not as cheaply as some of the less =>expensive registrars. => =>My overly verbose $.02 worth, => =>-Ken I did it about 18 months ago and I'm never going back. Never.
The secret formula is Red Hat + sendmail + spamassassin + ddclient + zoneedit.com + their Backup Mx service for $10. It rocks and anyone can do it. The system is up 24/7 and I can access my system from anywhere. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss