Yes, I do. I use gmail for mailing lists, and coder for random stuff that I'd prefer using my old address(es) for. On coder, I read email in pine. Inside screen, of course.
There are no guarantees, but it's reliable in the sense that if it goes down, it's because the home router's gone wandering, and I bring it back myself in 30 minutes or less (kw.igs.net hasn't had an outage of more than a few hours for... I don't remember how long).
Of course it's totally up to you, and I wouldn't necessarily trust some flaky server in some guy's closet with my email, just on the say-so that he trusts it for his own email. Cause what kind of a nut is he anyway, to go on about himself in the third person.
..I don't know if yahoo will do this, but gmail will allow you register for a "gmail for your domain", and set the IP for your domain to gmail's server, then hey presto, your own domain's got gmail.
How would you get a domain? Well, I was also thinking, you're welcome to any subdomain (really, just about any; it's perfectly free, just one line of DNS) on coder, which would then possibly last a while. Might or might not be more permanant than yahoo. Yes, I suppose I am that full of hubris.
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Date: Wednesday, 5 September 2007 04:25 am (UTC)Yes, I do. I use gmail for mailing lists, and coder for random stuff that I'd prefer using my old address(es) for.
On coder, I read email in pine. Inside screen, of course.
There are no guarantees, but it's reliable in the sense that if it goes down, it's because the home router's gone wandering, and I bring it back myself in 30 minutes or less (kw.igs.net hasn't had an outage of more than a few hours for... I don't remember how long).
Of course it's totally up to you, and I wouldn't necessarily trust some flaky server in some guy's closet with my email, just on the say-so that he trusts it for his own email. Cause what kind of a nut is he anyway, to go on about himself in the third person.
..I don't know if yahoo will do this, but gmail will allow you register for a "gmail for your domain", and set the IP for your domain to gmail's server, then hey presto, your own domain's got gmail.
How would you get a domain? Well, I was also thinking, you're welcome to any subdomain (really, just about any; it's perfectly free, just one line of DNS) on coder, which would then possibly last a while. Might or might not be more permanant than yahoo. Yes, I suppose I am that full of hubris.