OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

[Michael O'Donnell]

>What is even more disturbing from their latest notice
>to subscribers is the fact that unless you use their
>update agent, you will not be able to use the att
>email forwarding....  That to me seems wrong, coupled
>with the fact that the update agent only works on OE,
>not any other email client...

Ascribe not to malevolent collusion that which can
be adequately explained by incompetence or inertia.  ;->

Again, I urge attbi.com customers to read their
attbi-specific newsgroups if you'd like info that's
a bit more useful than what's available from the
clueless lowest-common-denominator messages sent
out by the ATTBI marketing dept.  This is apparently
how the email situation will shake out:

 - Your old email address will (in most cases)
   continue to be valid for some period of time.
 - Emails sent to your old address will be handled
   by the same server that will be handling msgs
   sent to your new address.
 - The hostnames for the old email servers will NOT
   be valid after the transition.

So, for a while, email to both old and new addresses
will be valid.  However, unless you tell your email
software about the new servers (which I mentioned
previously) you won't be able to send or receive ANY
email, old or new.  This is true for Linux users as
well as Windows users, and you are not required to
run the "wizard" as long as you're comfortable making
the appropriate changes by hand.