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Subject:Email alias @vanagon.com
From:Stuart MacMillan
Date:Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:48:10 -0700

Sure, I'd pay $25/year, this is a great idea!

Ron 'Coyote' Lussier wrote:
>
> > What if some nice sysadmin were to remotely configure and
> > maintain email accounts at
> > vanagon.com for all the list members... or some subset of
> > listmembers that were willing to
> > chip in a nominal fee.  And then the stickers were printed with
> > enough blank space to allow
> > for listmembers to write in their handle with a sharpie marker?
> >
> > Then you could catch up to that proverbial Champagne '87 Syncro
> > westbound on I-90 and
> > actually see that it was "foo@vanagon.com" in front of you?
>
> I've actually thought about doing this, but it's somewhat complex.  First,
> it would require quite a bit more security for my server, which is a Windows
> 2000 box sitting next to my bed.  Secondly, it would require a better email
> system, which would cost $$$.
>
> This isn't impossible, and may be worth discussing.  Would people be
> interested in this if I charged, say, $25 / year for an email account which
> forwarded to another email address?
>
> Coyote
>
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> Ron 'Coyote' Lussier   (     )    \ _/__
> coyote@macromedia.com   \   /      \X  /  1991 Syncro Westy 'Francis'
> 1.650.481.4847           \_/         \/             San Francisco, CA

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