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   Hear hear!

   

   Bish, Jan 13th, 2003 @ 3:30am

   
   

   I cannot agree More. In the last 8 year I've changed jobs 3 times, towns 4 times and ISPs about 4 times. I've changed email addresses exactly ZERO times because I run my own domain.
   
   That's 8 years, now; think on that. Even during the most expensive phase of the project, I've only had to pay about $60US/yr. Not too shabby for piece of mind.
   

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   dull

   

   gary, Jan 13th, 2003 @ 7:05am

   
   

   They must have laid off all of their marketing people. If you are going through the trouble of changing domain names, you would think they could come up with something with more marketing pizzazz than @comcast.net

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   E-mail Redirector

   

   Larry Armstrong, Jan 13th, 2003 @ 8:21am

   
   

   I've changed jobs several times, had ISPs go out of business and never had to change my e-mail address because I've been using an e-mail redirector service http://www.pobox.com
   
   At $15 a year, it's cheaper then running a domain.
   
   Larry

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   Re: E-mail Redirector

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2003 @ 9:11am

   
   

   If you don't mind the name, www.myrealbox.com is a free redirector.

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   Re: dull

   

   John, Jan 14th, 2003 @ 4:26pm

   
   

   Precisely!
   @home was great, attbi is a barely, but comcast.net...puke!
   JR Hess
   Petaluma, CA

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   New email address

   

   John, Jan 14th, 2003 @ 4:33pm

   
   

   Might as well start using it right now: [email protected]

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   Unbelievable

   

   Dub, Jan 23rd, 2003 @ 9:04pm

   
   

   Amazing. How much would it actually cost Comcast to keep the attbi domain? Like, next to nothing? Nobody else is going to be using it.
   
   Some companies are just so friggin' stupid.

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   Emails - Help me please!

   

   Barb., Jul 10th, 2003 @ 2:22am

   
   

   Thanks to Google I found You!!! I use Windows 98 Version 6 and have two people I exchange information with. One, here in my Town, and I can converse by phone and believe me we sure have ever since she switched to Comcast.net for her ISP! The other person lives 3000 miles from me and has had comcast.net for well over a year and we have exchanged many emails during that time, but not any-more!!! Every time I send an email to either one of these people approximately 24 hours later I receive an email that says the email has been "DELAYED" (?) I'm not computer literate by any means but have been on line for four years and have never, ever received that message before. Have you ever had that happen? Let me continue, after that message arrives and an additional 36 or so hours pass I get another email saying "Failure, server cannot be found"! Yeah, okay, and I would think I had messed up the address and would then try again, with no success. I believe in the last 10 days I have spent a minimum of 6-7 hours on the phone to MSN tech support trying to find a solution and before we hang up I am always told that the problem is not MSN but it is a Comcast problem and the party I am trying to send to should contact comcast!!! This is where living in the same Town has come in handy for both of us. Well, MSN blames Comcast, Comcast blames MSN and my adult long out of the nest children tell me to buy a new computer! I'm a stubborn senior citizen, and figure that the amount I pay each month for my ISP service is enough that I should be able to use my computer. I'm hoping that you can help me lay the blame with this either on MSN or COMCAST. Comcast has only been available in my area for a couple of months and about a month ago I decided to switch to Comcast and when the installer finally came (7 hours late)he checked my cable installation where it comes in the house, then said he had to check the phone pole where it came in from and then informed me that the only way it would be possible to install comcast would involve tearing off the outside siding of my home and somehow trying to get the new cable line to my T.V. outlet (my home is 12 years old and prewired with probably l5 T.V. outlets and my T.V.'s run off these outlets anywhere in the house. Comcast bought out our cable T.V. (over a year ago) and we are now already Comcast customers!!!! What could I say? He did sit down and do some checking at my computer to determine what my down load speed was (824.2) and uploading at (256). He said it was excellent and Comcast certainly couldn't beat that even if they could have done the installation! Could he have accidently changed something on my computer? I never thought of that before until just now. Hmmmmm? I have taken up far to much of your time but I would be thrilled to no end if you could give me some insight on this problem. I have to start getting some sleep instead of looking, looking, searching, searching and talking to Tech after Tech about this. Thank you so much for allowing me to go on and on about this and for taking the time to read through it all. A very frustrated little old Widow lady, Barb.

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