permanent email address

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

>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