Re: [mailop] Is Spectrum trying to sunset rr.com and twc.com emails?
From: "Russell Clemings via mailop" > 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
Re: [mailop] Is Spectrum trying to sunset rr.com and twc.com emails?
In article , Russell Clemings via mailop wrote: >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. They learned their lesson. Now even if you cancel your Comcast service you can keep your comcast.net address. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Is Spectrum trying to sunset rr.com and twc.com emails?
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 6:59 PM Jay R. Ashworth via mailop 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 ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Is Spectrum trying to sunset rr.com and twc.com emails?
Nobody should listen to me at all because I have the memory of a goldfish. But in a past life I knew lots about splat.rr.com. There were royalty issues with the RoadRunner domains but I'm fairly sure Spectrum bought out the domain at least. I do know it (rr.com) under markmonitor through spectrum. There are millions of roadrunner.com and splat.rr.com users out there. While they had intended to move all new emails to a branded domain, that process is long and drawn out. On 2/8/20, 8:08 PM, "mailop on behalf of John Levine via mailop" wrote: In article <1692699245.1838651.1581216535504.javamail.zim...@baylink.com>, Jay R. Ashworth via mailop wrote: >Does anyone on the list know if there's such a sunset policy in process? I doubt it. My twcny.rr.com address still works even though I haven't been a Spectrum customer for quite a while. For all the reasons you cite it's much easier to keep the old addresses working even as you merge the infrastructure. I mean, aol.com addresses aren't going away even though they're now running on ex-Yahoo Verizon systems. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Is Spectrum trying to sunset rr.com and twc.com emails?
Several months ago I could no longer deliver to @kc.rr.com, and this went on for months, finally mx records changed one day and all of a sudden its working again. I have to wonder if that wasn't some kind of test or mistake, and then they realized that yes, customers do still use those addresses. -Original message- From:Jay R. Ashworth via mailop Sent:Sat 02-08-2020 08:54 pm Subject:[mailop] Is Spectrum trying to sunset rr.com and twc.com emails? To:mailop@mailop.org; A client got an email that appeared to be from Keap, or maybe InfusionSoft, suggesting that Spectrum was trying to do that, and that users shouldn't add contacts with those emails unless they were "bone-fide" (which was my only hint)... 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. The email also pointed to this domain name, which looks semi-official, and I can't decide if the whole thing is some clever spear-fishing attempt, or just someone who misunderstood something and is trying to be helpful. Does anyone on the list know if there's such a sunset policy in process? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 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 ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Is Spectrum trying to sunset rr.com and twc.com emails?
In article <1692699245.1838651.1581216535504.javamail.zim...@baylink.com>, Jay R. Ashworth via mailop wrote: >Does anyone on the list know if there's such a sunset policy in process? I doubt it. My twcny.rr.com address still works even though I haven't been a Spectrum customer for quite a while. For all the reasons you cite it's much easier to keep the old addresses working even as you merge the infrastructure. I mean, aol.com addresses aren't going away even though they're now running on ex-Yahoo Verizon systems. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
[mailop] Is Spectrum trying to sunset rr.com and twc.com emails?
A client got an email that appeared to be from Keap, or maybe InfusionSoft, suggesting that Spectrum was trying to do that, and that users shouldn't add contacts with those emails unless they were "bone-fide" (which was my only hint)... 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. The email also pointed to this domain name, which looks semi-official, and I can't decide if the whole thing is some clever spear-fishing attempt, or just someone who misunderstood something and is trying to be helpful. Does anyone on the list know if there's such a sunset policy in process? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 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
