Text 1337, 71 rader
Skriven 2009-10-08 22:21:05 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
   Kommentar till text 1336 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
Ärende: OS2/ECS Mail Server
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 SD> Hello, mark.

 SD> Thursday October 08 2009 at 15:16, you wrote to me:

 ml> intervention from me at all... even my BBS runs the same way... that
 ml> leaves me time to simply play and do what i want to do ;)

 SD> I have a 99.9% uptime and no administration headaches.

same here...

 SD> I can host my own domain and not worry about having to use a DDNS 
 SD> setup nor whack at my own DNS server...

same here...

 SD> no worries about email nor spam filters...

definitely no worries about that here with what i'm running ;)

 SD> no worries about when the power goes out or if the system locks up 
 SD> when I'm away...

i learned a long time ago that there's no real worry there, either... granted,
some who use my services may be inconvienced but in the end, everything catches
up and there's never been anything of importance lost... merely delayed and
since this is a hobby, not really all that big of a deal... life's much too
short and unpredictable as has been forcibly shown me in the last year or so :?

 SD> less overhead and more time for me to spend doing other things 
 SD> that I enjoy that don't really involve computers too much, such as 
 SD> my ham radio hobby and working on my '79 Ford F-350 pickup 
 SD> (there's always something to do on it to make it better; this 
 SD> weekend I'm replacing the valve cover gaskets and reparing body 
 SD> cancer to seal up the cab for winter).

i hear ya... i've got a 1979 toyota celica out under the shelter that i've kept
and refused to sell or scrap that i want to rebuild... i just gotta figure out
if i want to take it back to factory condition or dress it up as i've
envisioned it all the years i've owned it ;)

both, your truck and my celica, are 30 years old now... so are they classics or
antiques? ;)

 SD> Besides, after doing system administration for a few major
 SD> companies, I discovered it was much more fun for me to have someone
 SD> else have the headache about worrying about the server.

been there, too! :P

 SD> If I had a decent job here, for about $400 a month, I'd drop in my
 SD> own T1 line and run my own servers then. <G>  Of course, that's a
 SD> completely different ballgame there...

out here, the last time i priced it, a T1 was $900US per half mile, metered,
and a starting rate of $1200US per month... thanks but no thanks... i'll make
due with DSL just as i have done with dialup and if fecal material really hits
the fan, i can easily switch back over to dialup until the DSL stuff is back
online and operational ;)

 SD> P.S. The webmail I have with my domain can't be touched by
 SD> Webmail/2.  It's worth the roughly $4 a month I pay to have my
 SD> website hosted. <G> 

i've looked and looked and looked and still don't see anything more necessary
than access for read, write, reply and forwarding... everything else is simple
candy and we all know that too much candy rots more than just one's teeth ;)

)\/(ark

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