Yup. I'm aware of this. I will be switching to DSL with static IP addresses later this year. This will allow me to move all my email and web servers in house and not have to worry about this crap.


>In case you are not aware AT&T is now owned by Comcast. That is not new news but the following is painful for a number of reasons.
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>Per conversation with Comcast: "The email address will change from @attbi.com to @comcast.net by January 2004 if not sooner"!
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>This means not only your e-mail address will change but your web site or sites. Here we go again! @home, @attbi and now @comcast.
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>So we get to inform our family, friends and business associates when this occurs. I also have to alert many links to my web site. Don't forget your letter heads and business cards.
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>I am considering having business cards printed and filling in the e-mail address with crayon. :)
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>I think I had better get a domain and get away from my ISP (who seems to change often) and use the wideband pipe to provide the connection and let some other ISP host my site.
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>It seems that there are fewer and fewer players in the ISP world. Perhaps Earthlink will buy (or already owns for all I know) Comcast.
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>Tom