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

[Travis Roy]

> 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...

Yah, well AT&T 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.