Only a fraction of the @home customers went to comcast.com. The rest were either forcibly converted to other (local in most cases) ISPs (most were cable subscribers and the cable companies became ISPs), elected to switch to other ISPs (ie. earthlink, ev1, etc) or were abandoned (more than 40% from what I have heard) to find they had no internet service one day.
The @home demise actually occurred around thanksgiving, 2001. Thats when Excite pulled out and AT&T broadband #*$&ed all of their customers and adandoned them on the street. A small group of cable companies headed by Cox made an agreement to keep the @home domain running for 3 more months while each could get their ISP service up and running and convert their own customers off of @home. That agreement expired on Thursday night and the few remaining users were turned off. Those few users actually had ampel time to convert or switch and were just holding out by their own choice. Thats the story as it has been told to me by other sources! Todd -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Benton Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Home.Com? All of their users were recently switched to comcast.net. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Griffith - IMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "imail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] Home.Com? Anyone having problems sending email to @home.com users? We have not been able to send for a couple of days now. At first thought maybe they were just down, but getting allot of bounces now. Here is a small log snippet. Can not ping them either. Maybe it is just me. That is what I am needing to find out. Thanks! 03:04 15:15 SMTP-(00000162) Trying home.com (0) 03:04 15:15 SMTP-(000000CE) MX connect fail "24.0.95.20" 03:04 15:15 SMTP-(00000178) MX connect fail "24.0.95.21" 03:04 15:15 SMTP-(000001BA) MX connect fail "24.0.95.21" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(00000160) MX connect fail "24.0.95.21" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(00000184) MX connect fail "24.0.95.23" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000001A6) MX connect fail "24.0.95.23" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000001B2) MX connect fail "24.0.95.23" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000001A6) Trying home.com (0) 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000001B2) Trying home.com (0) 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(0000018E) MX connect fail "24.0.95.21" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000001A5) MX connect fail "24.0.95.21" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(0000018B) MX connect fail "24.0.95.20" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(00000171) MX connect fail "24.0.95.21" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(0000019E) MX connect fail "24.0.95.21" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000001A9) MX connect fail "24.0.95.20" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(00000162) MX connect fail "24.0.95.21" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000000CE) MX connect fail "24.0.95.23" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000001A9) Trying home.com (0) 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000000CE) Trying home.com (0) 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(00000178) MX connect fail "24.0.95.20" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(000001BA) MX connect fail "24.0.95.20" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(00000160) MX connect fail "24.0.95.20" 03:04 15:16 SMTP-(00000184) MX connect fail "24.0.95.20" Sincerely, Grant Griffith, Vice President EI8HT LEGS Web Management Co., Inc. http://www.getafreewebsite.com 877-483-3393 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
