From: IN%"gbroiles@darkwing.uoregon.edu" "Greg Broiles" 13-DEC-1995 03:40:50.49
I don't have much faith that the people who are currently doing the DNS for my domain name (goldenbear.com) are going to do anything about the current bouncing-messages phenomenon anytime soon, so I'm looking into other ways to get & send E-mail (e.g., more persistent than this address which will disappear when I'm done with school in ~ 6 months). I've found a few services which may be of interest to C-punks because they're useful for creating/maintaining persistent cyberspace identities with no necessary connection to a "real name".
[...] netbox.com ( http://www.netbox.com ) provides web pages and E-mail storage or forwarding for people; they let you sign up for a trial month for free. They ask for name/address/phone (which could easily be a Mailboxes Etc address and a voicemail from Mailboxes Etc or whatever) and accept payment by check or credit card. They'll store incoming email or forward it to another account. They'll do header rewriting (similar to the anonymous remailers) so that outgoing mail looks like it came from this address. -------------------- There's one problem with this in regards to the "no necessary connection," and that 's the governmental requirement for mail forwarding. MBE and any legal other one will want to see at least two forms of ID including one photo, and have a form that they fill out using that and send to the local post office. Anyone have a way around this problem? -Allen