Email hosting (was: ATTBI/Comcast rant)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 4:32pm, hewitt_tech at attbi.com wrote:
> P.S. Which opens up the discusson - what do you do if you want a permanent
> email address?

  Pay for it.

  You can register your own domain.  That is a fairly safe way to do things.  
As long as you pay the bills, it is fairly unlikely you will ever lose the
domain.  Many registrars now even offer basic email forwarding services with
your DNS registration.

  Alternatively, you can pay for an email address hosted by a third-party.  

  I have an email address through iName.com (now Mail.com) that I pay some
trivial yearly fee for.  My theory is that a company that specializes in
such services is unlikely to decide to alienate their entire customer base.  
Of course, if they simply go out of business, I still lose the address.

  Major services like Yahoo now offer email accounts as well.  They are even
more unlikely to change their domain name.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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