How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*!

[numberwhun at attbi.com]

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" <numberwhun at attbi.com>
> To: "Hewitt Tech" <hewitt_tech at attbi.com>; <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
> 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.
> >
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