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Another possibility is get a group of friends together and pool money together to get a server and have it hosted somewhere and use it for email/web services. I did this a couple of years ago and it's been a godsend several times. On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Tim Lyons wrote: > > Depends. > > As I see it, you really have two options here; > > 1) Wait until attbi is legal and change all your subscriptions > ...until a new owner steps up and decides to make us use their > domain... Or 1b) setup a free web-based account and use that... > > 2) Setup your own mail server/dyndns/(optional domain) and > transfer all subscriptions. > > Either way you need to make the changes to your subscriptions; why > not make it to something permanent that you can retain control of > No matter who your ISP is. > > Of course, with a mailserver comes all the associated tasks involved > in ensuring it is secure and not an open relay (especially if you > want to bounce mail off it when traveling). You should also consider > implementing secure means of authentication/transfer for external mail > access. AntiVirus scanning of mail should be another consideration - > it saves me a lot of headaches with the family. > > If you go the mailserver route, Checkout dnydns.org or hn.org for > your dynamic DNS needs. I use DynDns.org for my primary domain and > HN for all the others. > > --Tim -- whatever it is, you can find it at http://www.bluesock.org/~willg/ except Will--you can only see him in real life.
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