>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

My friend uses pobox.com to avoid the problem. As long as pobox.com lasts, he shouldn't have to change his address.