Hi Vaughn,

I can imagine that you would prefer to die rather than go with AOL. If so, 
you are right. I am with AOL and going to leave them soon mainly because they 
spam their
members and because I cannot connect to them from Linux.

I would suggest you become a member of the IEEE and/or their Computer Society.
Then you get at least one alias and don't need to bother about changing real 
addresses any more. You e-mail will follow you like your shadow.

I think Compuserve should be a good idea. I contacted them and they said I can
connect from Linux although they don't officially support it.

I am new to this list. I subscribed two days ago.

Regards,


Spyros.



In a message dated 10/16/02 8:11:16 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
tv6@qwest.net writes:

> Hello all:
>      Here's a wierd one for you Internet gurus.   I've been having strange
>  problems with me email.  Let me give you the background...
>      I was formerly with Qwest DSL, using their ISP.  Around the beginning 
of
>  the year (I think), they said they were forcing everyone to MSN, so I 
signed
>  onto Getnet.  At the time, I was also subscribed to PLUG.  Since I too busy
>  with my work to keep up with the PLUG traffic, I decided to unsubscribe for
>  a while.  But since I'd changed email addresses, I simply neglected to
>  resubscribe on the new address.  I meant to unsubscribe from PLUG on my