I have what appears so far to be a permanent email address. I have had it since i have been on the internet. I was a charter member of iname.com They are small and I think they make money by providing custom email addresses. Since I got in early I got a free one. I think they also sell the addresses because I get a large amount of spam at the address. However I still get occasional responses from that address I put out on query forums etc over 5 years ago. I'm paying $15 a month to keep my ISP account in OK. I have been with them since they started over 4 years ago. I have all my personal webpages there. I have 2 ISP accounts + free juno here in MS. I'm waiting for a while to see how att.net works out. It seems to be a pretty good service. My step-kids mostly use the other account to get online and use hotmail. I just use the email account. If all else fails, I have a ccmail account at work. But I can't get a large amount of mail on it because even the disk allocation is small. gee, if it wasn't for email, I might have a life. But I am going on vacation on the 27th of June. I'm trying to convince my stepson to loan me his laptop so I can have email access while on vacation. The last time I took over a week off, I had 4300 email messages to download when I finally got back on. I was only using 1 ISP at that time though. What's bad for me is that Eudora still wraps the URLs to the next line. I have found the setting to increase the line length displayed. I'll see if that helps. Gene At 07:23 AM 06/10/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Gene, > Believe me when I say that I understand the work involved in the work you >are doing, I currently have hundreds of pages in several different countries >on various projects on the GenWeb's associated with Rootsweb. I thank you >sincerly for your efforts! Those files have helped more people than we even >know. > > I also understand the troubles with the E-mail providers, I know exactly >what you mean about these lifetime e-mail's being taken over by another >company and the service degrading as a result. Several years ago I had to >transfer a great many pages on my Comanche Nation pages from geocities over >to tripod, only to have tripod later force ads on visitors even with their >paying customers. > >Perhaps Rootsweb could set up a free e-mail server for genealogy researchers >without all the troubles the other providers have, I know the free hosting >they have been offering for several years on websites has been really been >beneficial. Having a decent e-mail system for genealogy would sure be a good >thing, and it would insure having a permanant genealogy e-mail which is >something we all can appreciate. > >It would be a shame to have your e-mail go down, especially when you could >not receive the wonderful e-mails from people whom post pages blaming you >for the enitire birth & death record project. hehehehehehehe > >Take Care! >-Darren > > > > > > > >==== TXARCHIVE Mailing List ==== >Help, I'm hung up in a dumb terminal! >