at the temporal coordinates: 11/28/01 2:38 PM, the entity known as Zachery
Bir at zbir_at_urbanape.com conveyed the following:
>
> On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 02:26 , Eric L. Strobel wrote:
>
>> And exactly how would us @Home cable modem users get at Yahoo to
>> use the
>> free e-mail??? That's at least as big an issue as anything else.
>> It's not
>> just losing the e-mail addy (though, thinking about figuring out
>> just who
>> all I'd need to notify of any permanent change is making my head
>> spin), but
>> potentially a complete loss of Internet access.
>
> Well, not to sound snide, but that wasn't the problem you addressed
> in the initial message. What was provided was a solution to avoid
> bouncing lots of email messages. How the recipient gets to them is
> a totally different story.
>
Right, although I mostly just wanted to give the list operators a heads up.
Although, if I can't get to Yahoo, then I'm certainly not going to
resubscribe using a Yahoo address, and so the potential solution doesn't
work.
> FWIW, I'm an AT&T @home customer, and AT&T is looking at buying up
> all the @home networks that they use. But I've got myriad other
> email addresses ( my newtontalk address is a domain that I own that
> I host here at work ), and I've never even checked my @home account.
>
That's about the line we got from Comcast. But if Excite pulls the plug
before Comcast (or AT&T) has their ducks in a row, you'll be off the air.
Which, I think, would be why Excite would threaten to do such a thing --
they feel they've got AT&T & Comcast over a barrel and can get a more
favorable settlement thru this threat.
Regardless, if you've got an @Home cable modem, I'd wager you're using that
to contact ALL those myriad e-mail addy's. And if the system goes down,
you're cut off from ALL of those e-mail addy's.
- Eric.
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