[Leica] OT: Web site host

[Herbert Kanner]

I just noticed the email below. I have a bit to add. Years ago, when couldn’t find an ISP I was happy with and was frequently changing them, I discovered that the ACM (Association for Computin Machinery) was offering a free forwarding service for their members. This was an ideal solution, because I could change ISPs and the outside world did not need to receive a new email address from me.

I wonder if there are many other professional organization which do the same. Those of you who have connections which any such organization might want to investigate whether they offer an email forwarding service.


Herb



Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650.208.9417

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> On Oct 3, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Philippe Amard <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2532_en.htm
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> 2016-10-03 21:47 GMT+02:00 Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org>:
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>> As far as email - I think the single most important piece of advice I can
>> give (I give it over and over, solicited or unsolicited, and of course it's
>> roundly ignored) is: *never ever ever use an email address provided by your
>> internet service provider as your primary email address to give out to
>> people* and hope to use consistently for years.  All that does is lock you
>> into continuing to use that ISP because of what a hassle is is to try to
>> tell everybody a new address to use.
>> 
>> An ISP should be purely a utility, a pipe, a source of bandwidth you can
>> switch whenever another carrier can give you better service or a better
>> financial deal.  Don't let yourself get locked in by falling for that free
>> email address they'll offer you.
>> 
>> So... a gmail address remains a fine choice (they do good spam detection,
>> and have really useful message archiving and search features).
>> 
>> Gmail isn't free - you pay for it by letting then advertise to you.  But I
>> still trust Google, because they have a good history of being transparent
>> about how they'll use any information they glean about you (and I've seen
>> them go well out of their way to make sure I saw and read any updates to
>> those terms and conditions before they went into effect - this by dramatic
>> contrast with Facebook, which routinely slips changes in under the radar).
>> 
>> You can use a regular @gmail.com address, or you can have Google handle
>> email for your personal domain.
>> 
>> You can also opt to buy the Gmail and Google Apps / Drive service by paying
>> $5/month per user in lieu of being advertised to.
>> 
>> As far as a website... the number of options is insane.  Note that if you
>> have a purely static, read-only-for-viewers, no backend functionality at
>> all website...  a pretty straightforward way to put up a static site which
>> is really robust under load is to serve it from an Amazon S3 bucket.  You
>> can look it up if you're interested and don't know what that means;  the
>> approach may or not appeal to you.
>> 
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