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Mark Delany (markd@mira.net.au) wrote:
: Craig Gibson <craig@interact.net.au> writes:
: 
: >Have you ever wanted an email address that never has to change when you move jobs, providers, location etc.
: 
: >Now you can......
: 
: >PO Box Email services provides:
: 
: I'm sure that they provide a fine service, but don't forget that you
: can have a domain (and thus an email address) for *life* by way of the
: .id.au domain mechanism.
: 
: Plenty of ISPs around the country participate in this mechanism, there
: are also non-ISP alternatives for interested parties, pricing is very
: reasonable (and free under some circumstances) and there are
: mechanisms in place to pick up the service if any given .id.au ISP
: disappears.
: 
: In short. Your .id.au domain should be safe regardless of what
: happens.
: 
: If you are after further info, I believe that there is a web page
: around the traps. Can someone provide the URL (is it at Fulcrum?).
: 
: Disclaimer: Sure, we provide a .id.au domain service, but a trivial
: analysis of most .id.au ISPs shows that pretty much every participant
: supports the principal of .id.au at a very nominal cost. In other
: words, shop around as all the prices are excellent.

The main problem with this is, that they have to organise DNS Servers,
mail redirection etc etc..which is far too complex for the average
user, there needs to be a service which handles all that for
them, they just set where they want their email delivered.

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