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 Up