08-13-2006, 03:07 AM
Regarding "catchall".
With domain ownership only, you can control how mail to that domain is routed.
Let's say you bought www.snap.info.
You would be able to set up a "rule" in the domain service's interface that said mail to prym@snap.info would bounce to (for example) prymrealaddy@comcast.net.
So you could tell your friends to remember prym@snap.info as your "forever" address. You could change ISPs every month and just point it towards whatever "main" e-mail account you happen to be using that week. You would never miss a message sent to prym@snap.info again.
Where the catchall comes in-- you can set up an "anything else" rule as well, so that you could tell one person to e-mail you at sales@snap.info, another to e-mail you at Puppiesaregreat@snap.info, another to e-mail you at "president@snap.info, and another to e-mail you at Ilovebondage@snap.info. You would receive all of them bounced to your "main" e-mail account. Obviously the catchall has more potential to collect spam, so if spam bothers you it's not such a good idea.
The downside of having a referring addy is that some listservs might be finicky about the arrangement (I never have quite wrapped my brain around that one)
and your friends will likely see responses coming from a different addy unless you're vigilant about setting your "from" addy to prym@snap.info.
Not to compete with the others here but both fastmail and bargainvault have great uptime.
DirectNIC is in New Orleans, and considering all they've been through it's amazing I didn't have any real interruption.
With domain ownership only, you can control how mail to that domain is routed.
Let's say you bought www.snap.info.
You would be able to set up a "rule" in the domain service's interface that said mail to prym@snap.info would bounce to (for example) prymrealaddy@comcast.net.
So you could tell your friends to remember prym@snap.info as your "forever" address. You could change ISPs every month and just point it towards whatever "main" e-mail account you happen to be using that week. You would never miss a message sent to prym@snap.info again.
Where the catchall comes in-- you can set up an "anything else" rule as well, so that you could tell one person to e-mail you at sales@snap.info, another to e-mail you at Puppiesaregreat@snap.info, another to e-mail you at "president@snap.info, and another to e-mail you at Ilovebondage@snap.info. You would receive all of them bounced to your "main" e-mail account. Obviously the catchall has more potential to collect spam, so if spam bothers you it's not such a good idea.
The downside of having a referring addy is that some listservs might be finicky about the arrangement (I never have quite wrapped my brain around that one)
and your friends will likely see responses coming from a different addy unless you're vigilant about setting your "from" addy to prym@snap.info.
Not to compete with the others here but both fastmail and bargainvault have great uptime.
DirectNIC is in New Orleans, and considering all they've been through it's amazing I didn't have any real interruption.