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e-mail
You should get a permanent personal e-mail
address.
We give our e-mail address to our friends.
If we change our ISP we must advise all your contacts so that they can
amend their records. A real pain. There is a way to avoid this
problem; get a permanent personal e-mail address.
How to get a permanent personal e-mail address:
Simply go to Go to http://www.iname.com/
and they will issue you with your permanent e-mail address. Your
permanent Iname will redirect your mail to your standard Internet Service
Provider (ISP). When, some time in the future, you change your
ISP you can have your mail sent to the new address by changing the ultimate
address lodged at iName by contacting http://iaf.iname.com/
. This is the only place you need contact when you change your ISP.
Your correspondents will continue to write to you at the Permanent Personal
address. August 1997 I paid US $49.95 for a lifetime subscription
but if you choose an address using their standard '@iname.com'or other
standard addresses there is no charge. My e-mail address is ah@myee.org.
Other e-mail services you might
like to explore:
If you have experience in collecting e-mail
when travelling I would like to hear about it. My service provider
in Melbourne, Werple, is part of a group of ISPs around the world that
are planning to link together so that subscribers can use a local call
in many locations around the world to connect to their internet mail server.
In April '98 I was in Manila and linked into
the internet using GRIC, properly described as GRIC Corporation
(Global Reach Internet Connection). You can learn more about it at their
internet site:
http://www.gric.com/
. It was easy to download my e-mail from my server in Melbourne,
and to use the World Wide Web, the IRC and the ICQ. To send
e-mail required me to change the STMP address to the server in Manila,
but once I understood what was needed to be done that was not a problem.
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