[plug] Email addresses and family history - was Re: [plug] telstra dns borked

[Shayne O'Neill]

Yeah. I think she's ok with her web stuff. She's got a dinky little
rootsweb acct and knows just enough to click 'publish' on the mozilla
editor I set up for her. Neat simple and newbie friendly.

I'll certainly suggest the domain name, but for the moment, it doesnt need
changing too much.

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On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bret Busby wrote:

> On Thu, 27 May 2004, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
> >
> > Eh...
> >
> > Folks internet connection. My mother is a geneology(sp?) nut, and her
> > email address is all over the internet.
> >
>
> The Correct spelling is "genealogy". The problem is that most people
> mispronounce the word. For years, I pronounced in "jeen-ee-ollogy", as
> do many people, but then I woke up to the correct spelling one day -
> checked it in the dictionary, and found that I, like most people, had
> been mispronouncing the word, and, consequently, misspelling the word.
>
> > I was strongly imploring iinet, but it seems she wouldnt of been able to
> > keep her address.
> >
>
> This is one reason that I found that having a domain name, is a really
> good idea.
>
> As a genealogy person, subscribed to about 100 genealogy mailing lists,
> apart from the non-genealogy mailing lists, and, administering a number
> of lists, It is much work to change email addresses when changing ISP's.
>
> Also, contacts that accumulate in the course of the research, would all
> need to be advised of change of address.
>
> So, the simplest thing to do, I found, is to register a domain name, and
> advise all known contacts, and, change mailing lists subscriptions to
> the domain name address, and, the changes should only need to be made
> once for each instance, then, the domain name email address remains with
> the person for as long as the person maintains the registration and
> hosting of the domain name. Another thing that would need to be done, is
> when the person uses forums (fora?) on the Internet, such as
> genforum.com, the person need to post a message in the subject threads
> in the foums where the person has posted messages, advising of a change
> of address so that people reading the fourums, can easily find the new
> email address.
>
> The costs are well worth it.
>
> Also, with a domain name, depending on the ISP hosting the domain,
> email aliasing means that your mother could also have an email address,
> for example, maternal.genealogy at oneill.org, apart from her personal
> email address, eg shaynes.mother at oneill.org, and so split email for her,
> into different email addresses, and, it can make using email more
> efficient, depending on how she has her email set up and what email
> application she uses.
>
> Also, as a genealogist, having a domain name, means that any genealogy
> information published on the Internet (apart from other material
> published on the Internet), on a person's web site, remains, as it
> appears to those seeking the material, to be at a constant address,
> regardless of the ISP being used.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>  you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>   Chapter 28 of
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>   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>   written by Douglas Adams,
>   published by Pan Books, 1992
> ....................................................
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