Re: [hosers-announce] service interruption

[Jeff Schroeder <jeffs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally, I am moving more and more toward ellipsis.cx as my main 
personal email account.  I don't give it to anyone other than businesses 
with good privacy policy and certain friends and so far it has been quite 
spam-free.  My other free accounts have been variously terminated or 
discontinued or so innundated with spam that they are unusable.  I've 
really liked the stability, simplicity and uniqueness of my address here, 
so I'd hate to see it go.

As for being down from Aug 14-19, that is ok by me especially if it makes 
it easier on you.  I have some suspicions about the delivery on the 19th, 
how likely do you think they'll meet it?

PS, does anyone know of a good DNS provider that will provide mail 
redirection and maybe also handles POP3 service?  That's really all I need 
in a constant-connection server nowadays and I don't really have the time 
to keep mine up to date.

jeff

At 02:48 PM 8/4/2004, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> 1. Sorry for the downtime this morning. The splitter for the DSL was a bit
> loose in the socket and broke my connection; I blame the cat, since it was
> working when I left home.
>
> 2. Moving, again: Once again, I'm relocating all of my worldly possessions
> on 14 August. SBC promised me that they would reestablish my DSL on 19
> August. That's soon enough that I'm uncertain whether it will be worthwhile
> to relocate charybdis during the time when I have no DSL.
>
> The primary problem with relocation is that I have to change the in-zone NS
> records for ellipsis.cx. The registrar does not allow domain owners to
> alter in-zone NS records through their web forms, which means it has to be
> done manually. That involves emailing one of their admins and waiting for
> the change to be made. The past three times I've had to do this, it's been
> a serious pain in the ass, so I'm not sure that it's worth it to have to do
> it twice in one week.
>
> 3. That leads me to a third point, viz. that dealing with the .cx registrar
> is such a pain in the ass, and dealing with my registrar for nomic.net
> (gandi.net) is so simple that it makes me wish all of my domains were with
> GANDI. Of course, netdns.cx is the sole registrar for .cx, so I cannot both
> have no domains through them and keep ellipsis.cx. Having a domain that I
> could register through GANDI would make my life simpler; on the other hand,
> lots of you use your ellipsis.cx account as your primary email and have
> fairly well-established web presences on ellipsis.cx.
>
> So, here are a few questions for you, the user:
>
> 1. Is it worthwhile to have charybdis up from 14-19 August?
>
> 2. Is it worthwhile to keep ellipsis.cx, in lieu of some other domain,
> probably in .net or .org?
>
> 3. If you answered no to 2, are there any domains in .net or .org that are
> both available and something you'd like to use?
>
> --
> J.
>
>
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