On 16Jan2018 20:28, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 15 January 2018, Paul Allen Newell sent:
Changing emails after 20+ years is madness ...
Too true. Having your own domain name means that you'll never *have*
to do that, it'd only be something you did if you *wanted* to.
I also went through this pain last year. My venerable cs@xxxxxxxxxx address,
which came from my first ISP, is now dead. They said "an address for life" and
this was, like your address, 20+ years ago.
They've been bought a few times since then, but every buyer has kept faith and
preserved the domain (and email service - they haven't been my ISP for years,
but for about $3/month I had email there).
But Telstra bought them recently and someone in management felt that they
didn't want this polluting their corporate brand scape. So they closed it down,
with a little warning. Management also _kept_ the domain instead of making it
available.
I'm on many many mailing lists and of course there's banks and myriad other
services where my email address was my identifier. There was much pain. My
partner also had the same rigmarole, and doubtless every other customer.
Now I run my own domain on a cloud VM. Postfix, dovecot, direct control :-)
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> (formerly cs@xxxxxxxxxx)
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