On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:59 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > It comes down to money for both of us. I know I can get Cable TV > plus Internet at blazing speed and I think you can too. But here the > DSL which is 8.5 days faster than your serial modem, costs me $14.95 a > month. If I was single I would have no further cost because I would > learn to do my own SMTP. But alas my wife wants us to maintain the > Zianet address that we are known for. > > The Cable stuff is $20.00/mo for basic TV + $20.00/mo for 6 months > and then then $44.00/mo thereafter. So it runs $64.00/mo in the long > run. I expect they have about the same there. > > So I just wait a bit longer and like the sound of money in my > account :-) One thing I learnt, *long* ago, was never get attached to an ISP derived mail or website address. They have you over a barrel if you want to keep it. Not to mention that you're stuffed if they go out of business or get bought out. If you like the idea of a permanent address, never having to tell friends to contact you on a new one, etc., then register your own domain name, and pick any company that you like to host your mail (and any other services you want). And if they begin to suck, you can pick up your bat and ball and go somewhere else, and still use your own domain name and e-mail addresses. It's well worth it, there's any number of hosting services that are reasonably priced. And, as their business is purely hosting, they can be a lot better at it than ISPs, many of whom just care about getting money off you to provide a connection to the internet. You could even set up a blog... ;-) -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
