I have magician@cix for email, domain hosting and dialup access. Compuserve for no apparant reason whatsoever (except for emotional reasons ... I joined up years and years ago, and when I did I sent an email asking if I could have a user number with 5, 17, 23 or 42 in it (all special numbers for me either from the Illuminati books or the HitchHikers guide), and I knew that UK compuserve numbers began with 100 (rather than the "7" for the US, and of course compuserve numbers were in octal in those days so no "8" or "9" in user numbers). They didn't acknowledge the email :-( but sent me a user number 100042,2357 which, after a short while I realised had ALL my numbers in it (17 as first and last digit, 42, 23 and 5) and so I'm really loathe to give that up (or to lose my the-magician@compuserve.com address) And BlueYonder for cable modem (I don't use any of the rest of the blue yonder services)
Plus one or two (or 50) domain names (gulp!)
I now can't keep track of all the names. I put them all on www.chrisoshea.com at one point, but that is out of date now :-(
I lost a few domains (most notably folkfestivals.com) due to my inattention or not having the money/energy to renew when they came up for renewal.
I nearly lost miskatonic.ac this month, thought I'd left it too late to renew but then they emailed me to say I had one more chance to renew (at price "x", whereas buying it new would cost more than 3x)
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Compuserve for no apparant reason whatsoever (except for emotional reasons ... I joined up years and years ago, and when I did I sent an email asking if I could have a user number with 5, 17, 23 or 42 in it (all special numbers for me either from the Illuminati books or the HitchHikers guide), and I knew that UK compuserve numbers began with 100 (rather than the "7" for the US, and of course compuserve numbers were in octal in those days so no "8" or "9" in user numbers). They didn't acknowledge the email :-( but sent me a user number 100042,2357 which, after a short while I realised had ALL my numbers in it (17 as first and last digit, 42, 23 and 5) and so I'm really loathe to give that up (or to lose my the-magician@compuserve.com address)
And BlueYonder for cable modem (I don't use any of the rest of the blue yonder services)
Plus one or two (or 50) domain names (gulp!)
I now can't keep track of all the names. I put them all on www.chrisoshea.com at one point, but that is out of date now :-(
I lost a few domains (most notably folkfestivals.com) due to my inattention or not having the money/energy to renew when they came up for renewal.
I nearly lost miskatonic.ac this month, thought I'd left it too late to renew but then they emailed me to say I had one more chance to renew (at price "x", whereas buying it new would cost more than 3x)