 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | Why Switch Addresses? Why is the change from @insightbb.com to @comcast.net needed at all? Also what happens if user1@insightbb.com can not just be made user1@comcast.com since the latter is ALREADY in use by another current Comcast user? It is MUCH simpler to just keep the old addresses and make them alias (or forward) to the real @comcast.com address. This alias method is what Verizon did/does. I have a banet.net address (from the Bell Atlantic days before Verizon subsumed BA and NYNEX) and it is still usable even though the account is really a verizon.net one. Since the old @insightbb.com address is going to keep working initially, why not just add a .forward (before the flag day) to the insightbb account to send it to the new @comcast address? |
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 sansri88digital is herePremium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
kudos:1 | You mean comcast.net, not comcast.com
Comcast.com email addy's are for employees of Comcast. Comcast.net are for HSI customers. |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | said by sansri88:You mean comcast.net, not comcast.com Comcast.com email addy's are for employees of Comcast. Comcast.net are for HSI customers. Picky - Picky. Why not answer the question? |
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| said by RARPSL:Picky - Picky. Why not answer the question? The answer is really quite simple. When you have one domain that forwards to another the original domain (in this case insightbb.com) takes the bandwidth hit for receiving that message, the storage hit for the message landing on their server and then the outbound bandwidth hit to forward it to user@comcast.net AND they would have to provide support staff for those times that things just don't work right on their end.
Who pays for that? Insight? Comcast? You? You might think that email is a minor part of the bandwidth pie each month and it actually is until you are covering the above costs for customers that are no longer paying you money. Insight would say no as you are no longer paying them. Comcast would say no because they already have their own email infrastructure in place. You would say no because you are already paying Comcast for email service.
Regardless of how minor these expenses would be for Insight they are still a for profit company and eating these types of charges tend to not make investors happy when there is no return anywhere along the way. Sign up for Gmail, Yahoo Mail or something similar. It really is the only way to minimize the risk of your email address having to change in the future. |
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said by RARPSL:This alias method is what Verizon did/does. I have a banet.net address (from the Bell Atlantic days before Verizon subsumed BA and NYNEX) and it is still usable even though the account is really a verizon.net one. Since the old @insightbb.com address is going to keep working initially, why not just add a .forward (before the flag day) to the insightbb account to send it to the new @comcast address? Verizon controls that banet.net domain. Not a problem in this case. They can set their servers up any way that they like. They see the same bandwidth hit as if the message had gone to a verizon.net address.
Insight will still have over 600,000 subscribers when this deal is done and they will be keeping their domain to continue to serve their own customers. |
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