I mainly lurk on this list in hopes of gaining a little knowledge so
this is my first post I think.
I use a site called www.subdimension.com for some of my email and it
seems to work pretty well. Might want to check it out.
Harry
Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: "A.M. Holm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: [pop3] Crosswinds in Canada?
| Thanks to Alan, Brian and all and those who gave me a hand off-list in
| trying to make sense of this 'rum' outfit. If I ever get around to
setting
| up a website, it will not be with these folks, despite the allure of
their
| palm tree logo.
|
| One of the things that I did at the outset was to do a tracer route on
| Crosswinds which led me to a destination in New York City. However, a
| single line in one of the help forums:
|
| "In any case, the only address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and mail to
that
| address goes to Canada."
|
| "Oh the horror!"
|
| The logical next step for any obsessive-compulsive seemed to be a
'whois',
| which I had never attempted before. However, with my starry-eyed faith
in
| Google, I found a site that delivered the goods, so to speak and much
to my
| chagrin Tony, and the boys at Crosswinds appear to be located in
Toronto,
| Ontario, the home of exceedingly few palm trees.
|
| (In a totally irrelevant aside, I'd like to point out that 20,000 odd
years
| ago there were palm trees along the New Brunswick coast, based on leaf
| fossils found in the region. This was presumably before the last ice
age
| when the Gulf Stream did not swing out to the Atlantic and onward to
the
| British Isles but flowed into the Bay of Fundy.)
|
| Do forgive the digression but I'm a bit punchy.
|
| The 'whois' information is below and before you even glance at it, I
want
| to fervently deny any connection with the "Holmes" boys, who appear to
be
| running, but not very well, Crosswinds.net.
|
|
| Registrant:
| Crosswinds Internet Communications (CROSSWINDS4-DOM)
| 404 1200 Sheppard Ave E
| Toronto, ON M2K2S5
| CA
|
| Domain Name: CROSSWINDS.NET
|
| Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
| Holmes, Scott (SH7836) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Crosswinds
| 404 - 1200 Sheppard Ave East
| Toronto
| Ont
| M2K 2S5
| CA
| (416) 499-1415 (FAX) (416) 492-2090
| Technical Contact:
| Holmes, Tony (TH3357) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Crosswinds Internet Communications Inc.
| 404 - 1200 Sheppard Ave East
| Toronto
| ON
| M2K2S5
| CA
| (416) 499-1415
|
| Record last updated on 29-Oct-2000.
| Record expires on 13-Aug-2005.
| Record created on 12-Aug-1997.
| Database last updated on 31-Mar-2001 08:52:00 EST.
|
| Domain servers in listed order:
|
| DOT.CROSSWINDS.NET 204.50.152.131
| NS2.CROSSWINDS.NET 209.208.163.35
|
| I did a further tracer route and discovered that the "dot.crosswinds"
is
| indeed in Toronto but the "ns2.crosswinds" is in New York City. I have
one
| last question before I wrap this up for the trash.
|
| Why would the mail servers be located in New York while another
element
| (???) of the service/organization be headquartered in Toronto, home of
the
| hapless Holmes boys? Is this a common practice or simply yet another
| instance of the quirks in this company?
|
| Thanks again for all the responses and kind words and for all of you
| staring at bounced messages on my behalf. :>)
|
| A - who would really prefer to be in St. Lucia but is in Canada with
the
| Holmes boys
|
|
|
