Email, a nightmare?

I would like to present another way for a musicians to handle their email issues.

Currently you use an email client such as Gmail, Yahoo on an internet service provider (ISP) such as SBCGlobal or Comcast. It makes sense to use the value added part of your ISP but to be honest, you probably have to deal with sending out a blast email when you change to another ISP or email client. Why? Why are you confusing people with yet another change.

When the consumer internet boom was in full swing in 1998, my wife wanted a website to help sell her antiques. She also wanted the fastest connection for her auctioning advantage. AND, she never wanted to change her email address again.

WOW! That was a tall order. But that is how she works, and that’s what works for her. And since 1998, she has never had to change her email address. Quite frankly, my email address has not changed since 2000. It has always been tamaro@drumt.com. Did you notice that? It’s not @hotmail.com or @sbcglobal.net. It is something short and simple. And yes, it relates to my webpage. (In fact, if you take the drumt.com and put it in your browser, you will go to my site.)

Magic, not really. It was part of my wife’s request. She wanted a website. Ok, I bought a domain, built a site. With it I got 5 email addresses. I used one for awhile and set one for hers. The next part was just logic. Whenever our ISP would change, we set the tamaro@drumt.com to forward to whatever our ISP email address was. We were with Megsinet for a long time until they were bought by a company in Wisconsin. So things changed a little bit. But we did NOT change our email addresses.

My wife dealt with the phone connection until hi-speed cable came to our neighborhood. Then she was out of control. Of course, within a couple of months of me not being able to get to my computer because she was auctioning, I had to build her a computer. Fast forward 10 years, we have a wireless network here at Casa de TA. A couple of Dell laptops helps us do whatever we want. Yes, a Dell running Windows…NO Problems! We do not worry about spam…ever. We don’t worry.


Next MNotes!, your ISP and your email client may be holding you back.