I had not heard about the prices going up. I know the raised them recently if you did not have cable tv as well, but if they keep raising the price, I may investigate Earthlink or dial up till something else comes available in my area. Unfortunately AT&T have a monopoly in my area as there is not DSL.
Jeff > There are also hints that they will be raising prices again. Considering > that AT&T just did this within the last couple of months, it's a bit > amazing. Maybe they subscribe (no pun intended) to the "What the market will > bear" school of marketing. Maybe they haven't heard that a lot of high tech > folks aren't working just now and that their accounts may dry up a lot > faster than anticipated. > > -Alex > > P.S. Actually it's been so cold lately maybe hell is freezing over... ;^) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jefferson Kirkland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Hewitt Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:38 PM > Subject: Re: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to > change their email addresses *again*! > > > I had to call AT&T after they turned off all of my email accounts, stating > that my accounts were inactive due to a complete screw up on their end. I > know, total shocker. It was at that time that they told me that I would be > changing as of the first week in February, but I have not seen any > notification go out. Ya think they would tell everyone, but obviously > things will not change with the new ownership. > > Jeff > > > > At 04:32 PM 1/22/2003 -0500, Hewitt Tech wrote: > >I certainly was aware that Comcast had bought AT&T broadband. For some > >reason I assumed that since AT&T owned the ATTBI.COM domain name that > >customers wouldn't need to change their email addresses. But apparently > >that's not true. Has anyone heard anything different? Given that we had to > >switch addresses this past February as a result of the lost mediaone.net > >domain name it seems particularly nasty to need to do it again a year or so > >later... > > > >-Alex > > > >P.S. Which opens up the discusson - what do you do if you want a permanent > >email address? I'm signed up at bigfoot and will likely re-subsribe from > >that email/domain address. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >gnhlug-discuss mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss