Cohousing-L Mailing List: FRED'S NEW ADDRESS: fholson [at] cohousing.org

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

As of the beginning of 1998 I (Fred H. Olson) will no longer
be using the email address at the U of MN that I've used for about
4 years (OLD: fholson [at] tc.umn.edu or fholson [at] maroontc.umn.edu).

My new primary address (which has been my secondary address for 1.5 
years) will be:      NEW address:  fholson [at] cohousing.org


POST ACCOUNT CLOSURE FORWARD REFERENCING
I hope to have the old address reference the new address in some way
after I stop using it to avoid bounced mail. (The phone company and the
post office do something comparable.)  Anyone interested in lobbying the
U of MN (or other access providers) for this policy, please contact me.


Here's an interesting anecdote about the cohousing.org domain in
an email address...

Last Friday I was chatting with the program manager at the MN Historical
Society in the milling district here about an issue of mutual concern.
He asked for my address in case the issue heats up in the future.
In filling out his address card I put my email address down as I am
inclined to do even when there is no blank for it...  I put down my new
primary address fholson [at] cohousing.org.  When he looked over the card he
said something like  'oh you're interested in cohousing also' which gave
me an opening to talk about cohousing which was unlikely to have come up
otherwise.

It is possible to get a cohousing.org 'vanity' address without getting
a new account.  It theoretically has the advantage of being an address
that one can use for a long time and just change where it "points"
if/when you change real access providers.  ic.org (Fellowship for
Intentional Community) provides 'vanity addresses'also.  I personally
think that tho cohousing.org is a bit long for an address, it is much
more meaningful than ic.org.  Contact me if you would be interested in a
cohousing.org address. (No procedure is in place to apply for such
addresses yet but if there were demand, maybe we'd get around to working
out the details.) Mtn (Mpls. Telecom. Network - cable tv public access 
and Internet access provider to non-profit orgs) which is 
cohousing.org's current access provider will be hopefully be making 
some improvements in the way the cohousing.org domain is address is 
handled to make it more seamless and transparent in the way it is 
used.  (You've probably noticed the cohousing-L messages coming from 
'freedom.mtn.org' for example.)

Fred
Fred

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NEW ADDRESSS   NEW ADDRESSS   NEW ADDRESSS   NEW ADDRESSS  OCT 1997          
Fred H. Olson  fholson [at] cohousing.org    Minneapolis,MN   55411  
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