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[Rowland Smith <rowland AT nc.rr.com>]

Lee, thanks for the info.  GoDaddy looks pretty good.  I didn't know 
domain names were so cheap now.

Thanks,
Rowland

Lee Haslup wrote:
> Rowland Smith wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a permanent email service - something inexpensive that 
> > I can use regardless of my ISP.  Any suggestions?
>
>
> Rowland,
>
>    The easiest, cheapest and most straightforward way to do it is to 
> register your own domain name.  You could, for instance, register 
> "rowlandsmith.com" (currently available, I checked) for about $8.00 a 
> year. That would give you control of any email address that ends with 
> " AT rowlandsmith.com".  Almost all of the companies that register domains 
> will offer email forwarding for the domain.  Email forwarding is easy to 
> use.  You just log in to the management website for your domain and put 
> your ISP-based email address in a table.  If you change ISPs, just go to 
> the management site again and put in the new address.  One well-regarded 
> company for registering domain names is GoDaddy.com.  The offer a 
> $10.00/year add-on that gives you spam filtering at their end and web 
> mail (which is useful if you ever travel w/o your computer.)  The extra 
> $10 is probably a good investment since "permanent" email addresses tend 
> to accumulate spam (because they present a sitting target, not because 
> being permanent makes them more susceptible.)
>
> None of this is hard to do.  Any number of people on the list will be 
> glad to help (myself included) but it is easy enough to do that anyone 
> who knows the word "ISP" can do it him/herself.
>
> BigLee
>
>
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