I have to get a new shell account provider ASAP

[pseydtonne]

Northland Communications finally blew it with me, scant weeks after I dutifully made my annual payment for my increasingly ancient shell account. They are no longer serving my interest except in keeping alive an email address of eight years.

I'll tell y'all more when I'm not half asleep. My mailbox was ten times beyond their limit. However, I never knew how close I was to the limit and they could only find out when they asked the sysadmin. You have no idea how angry I am with them. The full story will be worth reading, I promise.

I leave my mail remotely. Lots of it. Unsorted. It's how I work. 30 MB is a lot of email. I realize this. I'm a pack rat, okay? However, I should be informed my limit isn't the 10 MB I'd signed up for in 1996 but 3 MB. Three! In 2005, when I have a memory stick on a lanyard with a measly 128 MB. I wasn't able to look up my usage because "that's a different server". Asshats galore! Fucking Uticans.

I have not been able to send or receive mail since noon Thursday, when a system sweep happened. If you need to email me, please use pseydtonne at gmail dot com. I will be setting up a Linux box to let me run the backup I need to perform. After that, I get my Dreamscape mailbox back. I have to get it below 3 MB if I ever want to use it again; it's at 24 MB after much skinnying.

Does anyone have advice about good shell providers? I want a POP3, I want to call dibs on a domain name, I must have a bash or tsch shell on a modern UNIX flavor, and none of these draconian limits. tkitch mentioned Delta Web Hosting. Anyone else have a fave? I am looking to stick with whomever I choose for a decade. Please let me know.

-if I weren't on an SSRI I'd be too pissed off to sleep

P.S.: I also found out I have to use the full 1040 and fill out Schedule D this year. Ah, my thirties arriveth!

Comments

[fuzzplugjones.livejournal.com]

Go get a domain name at www.domaindirect.com and send me the password, I'll point it to my server and you can have POP3, IMAP, webmail, a Gentoo shell account with pine, and as much space as you want (I leave my mail remotely too, thing is there's about 800MB of it... so your 30MB is of no consequence). Of course, there's also Apache, PHP, MySQL, and other toys when you're ready to do that sort of thing.

Then when you get yourself a good solid Gentoo firewall/router/server in your apartment I'll work with you to move it over. I'll even come the fuck out there and you can hug me for it.

You think you need an SSRI, remember Jim Moronski taught me Linux,
-Mark

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

30 MB is a lot of email

Bwahahaha.

% du -ks ~/Mail
641316  Mail

And most of that is compressed to within an inch of its life. So figure ~4x that uncompressed...

30 MB of storage costs $0.03 right now. And that's a one-time cost. What's their problem again?

Also, my Tax Day Party is looming. I need a date. But first I need to find my lost W-2 (grump). And get healthy and stuff.

[starburstlvr.livejournal.com]

A Tax Day Party? Wow... sounds like a good reason to get people together, drown yourself in your lack of money or celebrate the tiny portion of money the federal government returns! Whoo.

[novalis.livejournal.com]

novalis@newbabe:~% du -ks Mail
1097248 Mail

90% of that is compressed.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine that they took away the simple privilege of running du on a mail folder? You can see my quandry.

By the way, hiya! We should hang out.

[novalis.livejournal.com]

Definitely. But not this weekend.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Yeah! *That's* what I'm talkin' about! :)

My archive only goes back to '96, because my ugrad account vaporized. Where do you start?

[novalis.livejournal.com]

1998.

But I'm licensing@gnu.org, so I get a lot of mail :)

[gingicat]

I like panix.com; I've had a shell account with them since 1996 and their rates just keep getting *better*. And I have my domain hosted there, too.

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

We have to do the Schedule D also, and I'm not even 30 yet.

[fuzzplugjones.livejournal.com]

mark@darwin mark $ du -sh Maildir/
820M Maildir/

You are not a pack-rat, Dante.