Testing Again

[Andre Mangan]

Hello Mike,

Stop grinning...I have had a bigpond address since about 1995, if not
before.  There has never been a .au suffix.  Currently I have several
bigpond addresses, having retained my dialup address without the .au.  My
broadband address does have the .au suffix.

To attach a .au suffix has become a matter of habit for Australians because
all other Australian ISPs use this identifier.  Because of this habit, if
all emails addressed to bigpond.com.au were to be rejected as incorrectly
addressed it would clog the mail system and Bigpond would lose even more
customers.

On second thoughts, keep grinning.  What is life without mirth?

Cheers,
Andre



On 30/07/07, Mike Harold <mike.harold at bigpond.com.au> wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Andre Mangan <andremangan at gmail.com>
> *To:* Mike Harold <mike.harold at bigpond.com.au>
> *Cc:* ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Sent:* Monday, July 30, 2007 5:01 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Testing Again
>
> Do you mean the .au at the end of your address that should not be there?
>
> Cheers,
> Andre
>
> Now Andre! You know perfectly well that BigPond has only recently dropped
> the au, and that it is still a recognised part of the address. Besides that,
> I have had my e-mail address from just about the first day that Telstra, or
> whatever it was in those days, changed the name of its Internet Service
> Provider to BigPond.
> How far can you go back?
>
> - and I am grinning from ear to ear!
>
> Mike
>
> >
> >
>


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