From: "Russell Clemings via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org> > On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 6:59 PM Jay R. Ashworth via mailop < mailop@mailop.org > > > wrote (in part): > > > but my experience of email carrier buyouts is that no-one *ever* sunsets the > > domain names, cause there's no real reason to do so, and it pisses off > > end-users. > > Tell that to Comcast, which bought attbi.com and made all of their users > change > their email addresses to comcast.net , just as attbi.com had done a few years > earlier when it bought mediaone.net . Quite a few years ago, but it was a > colossal pain. > > https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/blog/19-million-attbi-email-addresses
Well, the snap answer there is "why the hell would you stay?" If you're going to have to flush through a change cycle on an email that -- if they're being that stupid anyway, they're probably not going to forward -- why would you stay with the carrier anyway. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
