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Resolution!
Sorry for the delay, Ginger. I really did respond right away.
I'm so disgruntled with my email. It feels like some karmic payback or something. I'm old enough to have lived through an amazing technological time in human history and yet, my email blows consistency-wise.
Gmail. I know some of their policies blow. But their email works.
I may need to switch because I'm thinking of moving to a local carrier and bagging both comcast and verizon.
I have had the same web-based email account via onebox for the last 12 years. I ought to just use it. Unfortunately, the address isn't a good one...my old name...that cannot be changed without canceling the account and getting a new one. It has a fantastic spam filter, but it is not as easy to use as the comcast web mail.
Then again, ease of sporadic use is not really, truly easy.
gmail has a terrific spam filter, unless you are ita and get lots of legit email about scantily dressed wet men.
BTW, if you like onebox, but not your user name, are you sure you can't add a second mail box with any name you like?
I asked about 4 years ago, when I went back to my original name, and they said I would have to buy a whole new account. I've been using the onebox account for all my business stuff for so long, it would be a massive pain to change it, but I don't want to pay twice.
My one work around is having my two business accounts point to onebox _and_ the comcast account. That way, I get redundancy on incoming messages, but I can't get the onebox to mask the outgoing address with the new business address.
I dont' think, anyway. Hm. Maybe I should check that.
I got it this time. There are hundreds of misplaced e-mails piling up in the ether somewhere.
Do you have e-mail with your website, Bonny?
If you used a gmail account it could receive email from up to 4 (or is it 5) other accounts. You could tell everyone to send only to the gmail account, but if they send to other accounts you still get them because of forwarding. And if you want to not be tied to gmail, you can tell people to send to your new domain's email address and forward that to gmail, and set gamil to give that as the from and reply-to.
I use gmail for consolidating my old hotmail account, my current gmail acct and my wordslinger emails.
Also, I wanted to let people know about this, as it may be of some interest: Sept 23rd is International Freelancer's Day (yes, yes, I know) BUT there's this free all-day on-line freelancing conference that looks like it will have some useful presentations, esp. for marketing, time and money management. Small biz owners might find it of use, also. [link]
Ginger, I do have a contact form on thedoggylama and my web guy has set it up so that I receive mail from anything at tdl. I also have the bonny at bk-t.
I could channel everything through gmail. I do have to admit that I don't like the threading in gmail. I know that is wrongheaded of me. It should be better, but I find it unweildy.
Maybe I should give it another try.