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There were two reasons for obtaining this domain name.

The first is so there was a central place on the Web for information about we few folk who have this variation of a name that was pretty obscure to start with.  I think its nice to have a home.

The second was to have a distinctive Email address.

The Web Host supporting this site, GoDaddy.com, included an offer of 100 free Email forwarding addresses along with the domain.  Let me describe what this is:  An Email forwarding address is an imaginary email address, where messages sent to it are automatically passed on to your real Email address.  I like to relate it to having a Post Office Box that would automatically forward any mail that comes there to your home address.  Someone sending mail to the PO Box wouldn't have to know your home address, and if you move your PO Box address would stay the same.  Email forwarding works like that.  So far, we've used very few.

There are other advantages.  If you have message-filtering software to read your Email, for instance Outlook or Outlook Express, you can add rules to look specifically for messages coming in through your forwarding address.  We can also create addresses that go to more than one person, for instance a joke address ("jokes @ dezotell.com" doesn't exist, yet) that would send funny stuff along to a group of people looking to receive it.  There is a limit to the number of names that can be used for this, otherwise we could set up something like "family @ dezotell.com" that would be a single email address that would forward messages to the entire Dezotell family, or at least the ones who've requested an Email forwarding address.  But that's the idea.

I'm passing this along to anyone who is an authentic Dezotell.  If you want to have an Email address that ends in "@dezotell.com", just send me a message with the standard email address you want messages forwarded to ("myaddress @ hotmail.com), the name you want at the beginning of the email address ("tom @ dezotell.com" or "julie @ dezotell.com") and some corroboration that you really are a Dezotell.  I'm reluctant to assign forwarding addresses with the family name on it to just anyone, there are a limited number available. My cousin Jim is the genealogy master for this part of the family, and he can validate your relation, so your parentage through 2-3 generations (more if you know it), or a spouse's name (if you married into the name), would be helpful.  (Also, it can add to Jim's family chart!). If the address you want to use is already taken, I'll let you know.  If you sign up for a forwarding address, and then change your regular Email address, please let me know, otherwise messages coming to the Email address won't be delivered.

Also, I have 1 address that goes to an actual Email box, but I'm going to allow anyone to have mail sent to it.  The address is junk@dezotell.com.  The address is purely there to catch spam.  If you visit a site that insists that you log in with an email address, but you don't want to ever receive a message from the site, use this address.  I'll check it periodically, looking for messages that look like they were simply misdirected, so no porn sites, please.  I expect to erase 99% of the messages that come in to that address.

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