Re: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*!
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 ATT 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 ATT 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 ATT 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 ATT broadband. For some reason I assumed that since ATT 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
Re: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*!
I'm not positive they're going to raise rates. They say on their web page that they will be considering services and pricing whatever that means. -Alex - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hewitt Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:55 PM Subject: Re: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*! 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 ATT 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 ATT 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 ATT 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 ATT broadband. For some reason I assumed that since ATT 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
RE: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*!
I certainly was aware that Comcast had bought ATT broadband. For some reason I assumed that since ATT 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... Yah, well ATT kept the mediaone.net domain for a LOT longer then I expected and I worked there :) They switch everybody on the inside over way before anybody else. They've been using cable.comcast.com for months now. The thing that really sucked was after all the crap of having people switch the guy that got the mediaone.net domain offered forwarding. 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. Buy a domain, it's cheap enough, then find a service like easyDNS or ZoneEdit to do forwarding for free.. Or get a friend that can host domains to do it.. I host guster.net for a buddy and some friends use scootz.net for email. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*!
There are also hints that they will be raising prices again. Considering that ATT 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. Yes, they will be raising prices again. The last price hike was odd, if you got super basic cable and a cable modem it worked out cheaper then just the cable modem alone. I think they realized people were pulling off filters after getting internet service installed and were just getting basic cable for free. Between that, their new TOS/AUP and changing the upstream from 386 to 255 without telling anybody made me glad I switched to DSL :) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
