My grumbles with Rogers...

[Colin McGregor]

--- CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Colin McGregor wrote:
> [snip]

[other Rogers problems snipped] 

> By the way Colin, your case underscores why one
> should not rely on the 
> company from which you get your Internet
> connectivity for your email 
> account(s). Your email address is part of your
> on-line identity. It 
> costs next to nothing to register a domain and get
> it hosted. (Contact 
> me if you need help.) Particularly when you are a
> published writer, it 
> makes sense to have a permanent email address
> independent of your ISP.

Yes, I've had my own domain for 12 years as of today
(mcgregor.org). A few years ago there were some
problems with the machine that was hosting my domain,
so, I figured easy fix, I'll just use the rogers.com
account... talk about a trap... Sigh...

Colin McGregor

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists