🚀 go-pugleaf

Chris Williams (chrisw@wwa.com) scribed for us...
>    I don't want to move. I have two money orders made out to Verio that I was
> just getting ready to drop off at the WWA offices. Shit! The ISP that I 
> trusted has been bought by spammers. Any one know a good ISP?

Just a suggestion for anyone who's thinking they may want to change ISPs, 
given the recent spate of local ISP sales: Think about getting a 
"portable" email address somewhere.  

POBox is one option and I know that there are others, so just look around 
if you need one.  They're not expensive, and they have other advantages 
beyond the fact that your email address won't change if you switch ISPs. 

* Some of them (well, pobox, maybe others) give you several addresses so 
you can use them for different things - perhaps one for personal mail, 
one for Usenet, and one for web pages that require an address.  
* Some of them provide spam filtering.  
* Some of them provide SMTP servers that you can be set up to use in case 
you're going through a corporate firewall and your primary ISP has 
(hopefully) anti-relaying measures installed.
* All of them should allow you to change the address that mail is 
forwarded to very quickly, so if your ISP blows up and starts rejecting 
mail, you can shift to a backup quickly.

Overall, something that's worth looking into given the likely instability 
of the local ISP scene over the next few years.  Personally, I'd be 
surprised if WWA and MCS were the only ones changing hands.

ajm

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Alan Miller \\ ajm at pobox.com \\ http://www.pobox.com/~ajm