ATT's change of domain name

[John Abreau]

John Malloy <johnmalloy at mediaone.net> writes:

> That will be a logistical nightmare for quite a few people.
> 
> Is there any way to make is less of a hassle?

I wouldn't recommend changing everything to attbi, either; there's still
the uncertainty that a comcast buy-out will entail yet another switch
like this.

The best advice I can give is to not use on the ISP's mail account
for anything important. I don't publish my mediaone address anywhere,
so the only thing I ever get from it is mail from AT&T. 

There are services out there where you register your own domain, and
then they maintain your DNS for you and manage mail forwarding to
whatever ISP account you actually receive your mail on. Then when you
have to suffer through one of these changes, the change is transparent
to anyone who sends you mail, including all your list subscriptions.


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