Spent the past couple of days visiting people we knew through email and the net and found it to be a lot of fun.

Just reporting in briefly to let you know that Microsoft has gotten cash-hungry again and is turning the free Listbot service into a US$149 per year service and is discontinuing the free service on August 6th.

I will be taking steps to make sure that there is an alternative but I am damned if I am going to pay that fee. Looks like I may have to go back to the “more work for me” option of transferring 80+ addresses to an email alias to send through regular mail. Bother.

Anyway, I will take care of it at my end. Just letting you know in case you all get emails from Listbot to tell you that the service is closing and then you all email me to let me know.

Not that emailing us is a bad thing - we really like to log on and get emails from people back home and also from those we’ve met in the US. we may not always be able to respond within a day or two, but we do respond to those that email us and it’s great to hear the news from places we are not. Hint. Hint.

We are off to Canada today so we will add to the number of countries we have been on the Odyssey. Next email should be from outside the US borders.

Categories: Travel, Odyssey 2001