[Sderby] Networking
James Carter
sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue May 27 22:41:00 2003
James Gibbon wrote:
> David Coulson wrote:
>
>>Hi to all, especially those networking guru's out there. Here is my
>>query. I wish to network my wife's computer and my own and then switch
>>to broadband. Neither of us wants to lose our email addresses
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> It's all do-able, but I haven't done it myself so I'll defer to
> someone who has. But I wanted to make a small point about email
> addresses as many people aren't aware of this - you don't need
> to lose your email address when you change ISP. For example, I
> currently connect via ntlworld, but still use my virgin.net
> email address as you can see - I just continue to use the virgin
> mailserver config
>
> James
>
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Hi
Some ISPs will let you read emails from any connection but you have to
connect via them to send the e-mails. I can't remember which ones. I
guess you will have to try and find out.
James