Re: Play By EMail without the email - suggestions?

From: Alan White <alan.white@tfe-bus-group.demon.co.uk>

Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3434d163.437088196@news.vegauk.co.uk>,
pspinks@vegauk.co.uk.ih8spam writes
>Hi
>
>Can anyone suggest ways to continue an ongoing PBeM game when one of
>our number has temporarily lost his email connection?  Snailmail is
>out (this game is trans-atlantic) so we're looking for a site or a
>newsgroup where we can post short text messages.  Desirable
>characteristics are:
>
>o      we can have something up and running in a few days (a week at
>most)
>
>o      ease of use
>
>o      preferably free
>
>Background - my email connection is via a company account, but it has
>suddenly became very unreliable because three events - firewall
>installation, router failure, and UNIX email service overhaul -
>happened simultaneously.  It would not be so bad if undelivered
>incoming messages bounced, but they don't - they are lost without any
>notifiication to the sender.  Only email is affected - I still have
>Internet / Newsgroup access.
>
>Paul

As a temporary solution, I would suggest iname.com

They offer a free e-mail forwarding service, which can be forwarded to
any other e-mail account (a freinds etc).  You can also get some pretty
nifty e-mail names, for instance the name I play cyberpunk under is
widow.maker@cyberdude.com.

Hotmail.com is another solution, however it requires that you send and
view mail from a web browser.

--
Alan White