I'm off travelling in a couple of weeks and need an email account. I was going to go with Hotmail, but I recall a discussion on this forum about other, better, services. Does anyone remember that or have suggestions? Back channel is probably appropriate. What's the paddling link? I'm going to the Irish, the Anglessey, and the Scottish Sea Kayak Symposium's, all in the same month. Between those events and four BCU courses between them, it should be a great time. Cheers -- John Kirk-Anderson Banks Peninsula NEW ZEALAND *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Fri, 01 Jan 1904 00:30:26 +1200, "John Kirk-Anderson" <jka_at_netaccess.co.nz> said: > I'm off travelling in a couple of weeks and need an email account. I was > going to go with Hotmail, but I recall a discussion on this forum about > other, better, services. Does anyone remember that or have suggestions? > Back channel is probably appropriate. I've grown to loath hotmail and msn, I moved my rant lower so people could skip it. I've got web based email accounts with, in order of preference, fastmail.fm, mail.yahoo.com, arabia.com, and mail.com. I'm using the fastmail based account now. The interface has no graphics, no pop ups, no pop unders, and for a 1 time joining fee no tag line. They've got a 10 meg folder size for the free account. For small amounts of money there are more options, like spam picking up from your old hotmail account. Their servers have only been inaccessible twice since I started using them 6+ months ago. I coughed up some of my own money to upgrade my account there, to get smtp access while travelling. Several other paddlewise/baidarka mailing list subscribers have moved there, I've yet to receive hate mail from them for the suggestion. Mail.com is the most annoying, they have a single pop under for each email item that gets deleted. <rant> I regularly get bounces for subscribers who are based at hotmail and msn there. The bounce comes in with no explanation at all. Just "delivery failed." Hotmail also has a 2 meg total email limit, that's just not a useful limit for getting a mailing list. Please, please, please don't subscribe to paddlewise with a hotmail account. My tolerance for user problems for those with a hotmail account is warn at the first failure then blow away the subscription, it's just not worth the amount of administrator overhead to have hotmail/msn based subscribers. <end rant> Kirk showing my mailing list administrators bias. -- Kirk Olsen kork4_at_cluemail.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I just stumbled across the site below, which was a real blast from my past. My first paddle boats were two 1972 Royaks, which I used for free and SCUBA diving. (My six year old daughter had a ball paddling around Lake of the Woods, above Klamath Falls, Oregon on their first water trip.) It was my memories of fun on the water paddling to the dive sites that got me into Kayaking 4 years ago. Kayak history buffs might enjoy the history data including pictures of the first SOT, made from an aluminum aircraft wing tank. (Can you believe they actually make one, today, with a battery powered stereo or a blender? Aren't some water people interesting!) Fair winds and happy bytes, Dave Flory http://www.royak.com/index.shtml -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Check out the marine mammals _at_ <http://homepage.mac.com/dflory/Menu5.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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