| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 4 Sep 2000 at 23:33:30 |
| Subject: | Re: Cool or stupid idea? |
Hello Neil
On 04-Sep-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> With all this talk of email address's and domain names, here's an idea for
>> you to think about. Neil's gonna hate me suggesting this. :)
>
> Not as much as you're going to hate my reply :)
Oh dear, I thought that might be the case. :)
>> How feasable would it be for AmigActive to sell subdomains with email
>> address's to it's readers? For example.. www.richard.amigactive.com or
>> www.amigactive.com/richard with email address's as maybe
>> richard@lane.amigactive.com
>
> It wouoldn't be feasable at all. While it would be possible to set up
> mail forwarding easily enough, the web thing would be more tricky.
Oh well there goes that bright idea out of the window then.
> But
> there's a more important issue than the practicality. By posting from an
> amigactive.com address, there is the indication that you have some sort
> of official connection with the magazine. This is why I only use
> neil@amigative.com when posting something "official".
I see your point but, what about normal email address's like my Prestel one,
richard@amiga.prestel.co.uk, I would have thought it was fairly obvious that
I'm nothing to do with Prestel, and before some bright spark points it out
I'm nothing to do with Amiga either.
I'll go and shuffle back under my rock now. :)
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