Wanachi The domain safaricom.com seems not to open. Why have they ignored the country level domain? Alai On 1/23/08, kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke < kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:17:31 -0800 (PST) From: John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> Subject: [kictanet] about Google &Safaricom:-xyz@safaricom.com To: KICTAnet KICTAnet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Message-ID: <930487.5171.qm@web56608.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

I came accross the joint effort to b/w google & safaricom with regard to providing e-addresses. Good idea, but my question was:

Is the domain 'safaricom.com' locally hosted? I would have been happier (technically and mentally) if the suffix was xyz@safaricom.CO.KE or is it that suddenly the .KE suffix has brought us too much shame and pain that no one wants to use it :-(?

walu. nb: as a way of leading by example, I have been planning to shed off my jwalu@yahoo.com in favor of jwalu@jambo.co.ke but I seem to be trapped in some perpetual migration fever...Methinks we need to build .KE, both literally and electronically.

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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:55:48 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] about Google &Safaricom:-xyz@safaricom.co To: "John Walubengo" <jwalu@yahoo.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Message-ID: <991123400801220655w6acac9d1ta4f6b8929788b550@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On Jan 22, 2008 5:17 PM, John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:

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I came accross the joint effort to b/w google & safaricom with regard to providing e-addresses. Good idea, but my question was:

Is the domain 'safaricom.com' locally hosted? I would have been happier (technically and mentally) if the suffix was xyz@safaricom.CO.KE or is it that suddenly the .KE suffix has brought us too much shame and pain that no one wants to use it :-(?

Hi Walu,

safaricom.CO.KE is used by safaricom for their staff addresses. It's simply not possible to include the ordinary mwananchi like you into that! :-)

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walu. nb: as a way of leading by example, I have been planning to shed off my jwalu@yahoo.com in favor of jwalu@jambo.co.ke but I seem to be trapped in some perpetual migration fever...Methinks we need to build .KE, both literally and electronically.

jambo.co.ke - is that Free?

Anyway, walu.co.ke will make more sense to me than anything else.

PS: As an aside, and at the risk of a flame war, are you personally happy with Safaricom as a provider?

-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:02:12 +0300 From: "Michael Kipsang Bullut" <kipsangb@gmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] I.T. Case Studies... To: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Message-ID: <2e9a33da0801220702m57c720b7q24f97d45557f807b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Greetings,

Does anyone by any chance have any documented I.T. Case Studies with them? If you do, could you please forward them to this address: kipsangb@iconnect.co.ke Thank you...

Kind regards,

Michael.

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"To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower...hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour..."

~ William Blakeg.

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