The email end is near..

The email end is near..
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burris @ 24th Jun 02:29PM:
The email end is near..

Just received this email from ATT..

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Important Changes to your AT&T Internet Home Page, Email System, and Terms of Service
Dear AT&T Internet Service Member:

We’re excited to let you know that soon we’ll be upgrading members to a new home page and email system to make your on-line experience better than ever with great new features and enhancements including new content choices, a customizable home page, and more.

What You Need to Know

Everything is set for your upgrade to the new att.net home page powered by Yahoo!® and we will be moving you on or after 07/26/2009.

Here’s some important information you need to know:

Your email ID(s) won't change, and your email messages, important Webmail settings and address book contacts will move with you to the new home page.

There will be no changes to your Internet access or pricing due to these updates. You’ll continue to enjoy the same great service you’ve come to expect – but now with an enhanced on-line experience!

Your Terms of Service will be updated. The new Terms of Service will take effect at the time of your upgrade on or after 07/26/2009. You can preview the new Terms at »att.yahoo.com/terms. By continuing to use the Service, you signify your continued agreement to the terms and conditions set forth in the Terms of Service document.

Prior to the upgrade, you should go to »support.att.net/newhome to learn more about the new home page, email system, and what to expect.

We hope you enjoy your new home and we look forward to serving your Internet needs for years to come! Thank you for choosing AT&T.

Sincerely,

Your AT&T Internet Service Customer Care Team
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graysonf @ 24th Jun 02:37PM:
Re: The email end is near..

I suppose that now is as good a time as any to abandon flakey, unreliable ISP email and go with someone who is going to be around for a while and not hose you.

Gmail if you don't want to spend any money.

pobox.com if you just have to throw a few bucks at it.

Sure there are others, but pobox has been there and will be there.
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mikes60 @ 24th Jun 03:42PM:
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I'd also suggest 1and1.com.

I have used them for years without any problems. Somewhere around $20.00 per year.
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NormanS @ 24th Jun 06:15PM:
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said by burris :(quoting an AT&T communication)

There will be no changes to your Internet access or pricing due to these updates. You’ll continue to enjoy the same great service you’ve come to expect – but now with an enhanced on-line experience!

Welcome to the "AOLization" of AT&T! And, where I live, even Comcast, and DSL Extreme are going down that path. Curses!
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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ndt @ 24th Jun 07:15PM:
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They just now screwed up my yahoo page.........
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burris @ 24th Jun 07:40PM:
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said by graysonf :

I suppose that now is as good a time as any to abandon flakey, unreliable ISP email and go with someone who is going to be around for a while and not hose you.

Gmail if you don't want to spend any money.

pobox.com if you just have to throw a few bucks at it.

Sure there are others, but pobox has been there and will be there.

I still have 3 yahoo.com email addresses since yahoo was born. Do you suppose they will remain under the same umbrella?

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graysonf @ 24th Jun 08:30PM:
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I have no idea. I'll consider myself lucky if basic packet travel isn't mangled.
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NormanS @ 24th Jun 09:20PM:
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said by burris :

I still have 3 yahoo.com email addresses since yahoo was born. Do you suppose they will remain under the same umbrella?

I've had a free 'yahoo.com' account since 1999. On Dec. 18, 2002, when I migrated my SBC account to, "SBC Yahoo! DSL Service", I was offered the chance to merge an existing Yahoo! ID with my 'pacbell.net' account. I did so, using the same username in both the 'yahoo.com' and 'pacbell.net' domains. Later, when I got tired of the spam to that particular 'pacbell.net' account, I closed it, and followed the steps to sever it from the Yahoo! ID. For about a year after the fact, that Yahoo! account showed elements of the 'pacbell.net' account. Eventually it just returned to being a plain old free Yahoo! Mail account.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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Zulu @ 26th Jun 12:23PM:
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I, for the life of me, do not understand. A company that claims to be the largest network, backbone, ISP in the world would "move" user's email, home page or anything else to yahoo.com.

I don't get it. Does AT&T think this is a user value added feature? I really don't know anyone else that does. What bozo came up with this idea? Makes them look like a bunch of fools...
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anon @ 26th Jun 01:18PM:
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Anything Graysonf or Splitpair post..... I READ
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burris @ 26th Jun 01:16PM:
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ATT is quite unique in this industry.

They started out owning everything and anyone wanting to connect had to do it through them.
Evidently, that wasn't good enough, so they tried a number of different directions..mostly failed.

They remind me of the cat with 9 lives. They are one of the worst managed companied on the planet, but they keep trucking along.

I suppose some envy is showing..
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Rebellious @ 26th Jun 01:36PM:
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My email stopped working this morning. I tried both servers yahoo and bellsouth, error says "password rejected" and some more gibberish. What's happening?
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NormanS @ 26th Jun 01:56PM:
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said by Zulu :

I, for the life of me, do not understand. A company that claims to be the largest network, backbone, ISP in the world would "move" user's email, home page or anything else to yahoo.com.

They weren't the largest "network, backbone, ISP" when they cut the deal with Yahoo!. As an ISP, they were number 2, right after Comcast. They had no "backbone" then.

I don't get it. Does AT&T think this is a user value added feature? I really don't know anyone else that does. What bozo came up with this idea? Makes them look like a bunch of fools...

Someone at SBC, which company actually bought AT&T, in case you have forgotten (who bought whom, not who thought up this deal).

There was/is plenty of grousing in former SBC land over this partnership when it was created in 2002.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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NormanS @ 26th Jun 02:04PM:
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said by burris :

They remind me of the cat with 9 lives. They are one of the worst managed companied on the planet, but they keep trucking along.

"Worst managed": If you are referring to the AT&T of 2000, which spun off their cable broadband Internet to Comcast, that is correct. So badly managed, in fact that they were bought in 2006.

If you are referring to the current AT&T, well, the management of the current AT&T is the same management which bought the AT&T of 2006. That would also be the same management which took the smallest of the seven RBOCs created in 1984 (Southwestern Bell Telephone), and built it into the company called, "AT&T" today.

But not the same AT&T our parents loved to hate: Without US West (Qwest) or Bell Atlantic and NYNEX (Verizon), or Bell Labs (Alcatel) today's AT&T remains a mere shadow of that fabled AT&T of yore.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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anon @ 26th Jun 03:14PM:
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Norman Bates meets Hannibal Lecter -- the Baby Bell that ate its mother and is now wearing her face.
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