[olug] Google changes to free

[Jeff Hinrichs]

I just did the same.

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:00 PM Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> Thanks - I read about this yesterday and just got done setting it up as a
> free family plan.
>
> I was about ready to take a long weekend to work through alternatives we
> discussed earlier in this thread; procrastination for the win! :)
>
> Dan
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 11:24 PM Jay Hannah <jay.hannah at iinteractive.com>
> wrote:
>
> > You can now tell Google you want to keep your free setup. If you don’t
> > tell them by June 27th you’ll lose it, or start paying lots of money
> every
> > month.
> >
> > Opt-In by June 27 to Keep Legacy G Suite Plan
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31416679
> >
> > j
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Feb 17, 2022, at 16:09, Ben Hollingsworth <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been really happy with Namecheap as a registrar, web host, and
> > email forwarder, except for the occasional delay in email.  For the
> price,
> > I absolutely love them.  I also love that they're very pro-FOSS.
> > >
> > > On 2/17/22 14:39, Jay Hannah wrote:
> > >> On Feb 5, 2022, at 22:42, Ben Hollingsworth<obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> > >>> I've run jedi.com email several different ways since 1995. For the
> > last 11 years, I've registered the domain at Namecheap (a very pro-FOSS
> > company). They host the DNS on their servers, and I have all my family's
> > jedi.com mail addresses set up with them as redirects, mostly to gmail
> > addresses that no outsiders ever see. You can even set up multiple
> > destinations for a single address, so (for instance) my son's email also
> > gets copied to my wife's and my accounts. The only cost for that is the
> > $10-ish per year for the domain registration.
> > >> Hmm… I pay directnic.com to resolve all my DNS, but I don’t see a way
> > to do email forwarding purely via DNS? It appears directnic.com wants me
> > to pay $20/year for a *TOTAL* of 6GB of storage for up to 6 email
> > addresses, and that won’t work, I’m hoarding too much email (that I never
> > read), and my parents hoard way more than I do.
> > >>
> > >> My (currently) free account in Gmail: 2.87 GB of 15 GB used
> > >>
> > >> Namecheap is better than DirectNIC, in this case?
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > *Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth* obiwan at jedi.com www.Jedi.com <
> > http://www.jedi.com>
> > > The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
> > > Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
> > > promise that You will pull me through. /-- Rich Mullins/
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Jeff Hinrichs
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