Re: Whine, Bitch, Moan, Complain.... -

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Sarah Premium,ExMod 2002-05 join:2001-01-09 Cambridge, MA kudos:5	reply to Nightfall Re: Whine, Bitch, Moan, Complain.... said by Nightfall: For those of you who do use it, then change it and let your friends know what it is. No big deal. It isn't that simple... I learned my lesson a while back so I only use that address sparingly, but many people use their e-mail address to register at web sites, sign up for newsletters, etc. etc. and it is a pain in the damn neck to switch them all. I use hotmail for most of that but I'm switching over to my own domain now... slowly but surely I know people who use their ISP address for business. My company did that up to about 2 years ago. How many people have 1,000 business cards printed up with ---@attbi.com? It is a completely unnecessary hassle for the majority of their subscribers. I'm just praying they won't institute bandwidth caps -- Support small music labels - here, here, here, and here. Check out my BBR journal!
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Q_ball join:2001-09-28 Santa Ana, CA	Its very funny, you suggesting that businesses are running their entire email communication system through ATTBI... thats insane... I mean any decent business these days should at least hire a hosting company to host their email/webspace and be done with it... for the 200-300 per year it is well worth the expense to know your communications lines can't be cut by the whim of a larger corporation.
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Sarah Premium,ExMod 2002-05 join:2001-01-09 Cambridge, MA kudos:5	I didn't say they were decent businesses, did I? People do it though. I just look in my rolodex. I see @swbell, @earthlink, @adelphia, lots of @aol... lots of small businesses do this. People work from home.
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ki1o Premium join:2001-04-12 Atlanta, GA	reply to Sarah said by Sarah: It isn't that simple... I learned my lesson a while back so I only use that address sparingly, but many people use their e-mail address to register at web sites, sign up for newsletters, etc. etc. and it is a pain in the damn neck to switch them all. I use hotmail for most of that but I'm switching over to my own domain now... slowly but surely This comcast.net email change will be the fourth email change for me in the past year, (@home.com, attbroadband.com, attbi.com, comcast.net) so about a week ago I decided to buy a domain email address. It took me over 30 minutes to change all my internet account email addresses (newsletter accounts, online stores, bank accounts, credit card accounts, friends and family) that I could do myself and I had to contact customer service for 2 internet accounts because for some reason they won't let you change it yourself. Lucky for me the hold time wasn't to long. Then a few days later, an account I forgot to change popped in my head and I go and change that. Who knows what other cable companies will buy us AT&T/Comcast users in 2003. At least with this email address, as long as I renew it every year it will not change. -- Boycott The RIAA
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pnh102 Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty Premium join:2002-05-02 Mount Airy, MD	reply to Sarah said by Sarah: I'm just praying they won't institute bandwidth caps For me that would be the straw that breaks the camel's back. We have way too many TVs for digital cable or satellite to be economical. But I use the heck out of my internet connection. If they cap it then I'll most likely be back on dialup... or maybe ISDN, I am not sure. I still think that hard caps are not going to happen. Too many people are going to get pissed off and cancel. I've said it before, but I think the cable companies have too much to lose if too many subscribers quit their broadband service (in way of stranded investments, etc.) so it may not be in their best interests to start capping people. -- DRM == Doesn't Read MP3s
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murdok6100 Avatar. Get It, Avatar? join:2002-06-20	said by pnh102: said by Sarah: I'm just praying they won't institute bandwidth caps For me that would be the straw that breaks the camel's back. We have way too many TVs for digital cable or satellite to be economical. But I use the heck out of my internet connection. If they cap it then I'll most likely be back on dialup... or maybe ISDN, I am not sure. I still think that hard caps are not going to happen. Too many people are going to get pissed off and cancel. I've said it before, but I think the cable companies have too much to lose if too many subscribers quit their broadband service (in way of stranded investments, etc.) so it may not be in their best interests to start capping people. Well Pnh if you are doing ISDN in west chester your going to pay through the nose and pay for caps as well. At least thats how it used to be. Im not sure sure that ISDN is an alternative. If you find that it is, let me know I'm ready to switch from Comcast as soon as I can find something that is more of a bang for the buck. murdok610
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pnh102 Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty Premium join:2002-05-02 Mount Airy, MD	said by murdok6100: Well Pnh if you are doing ISDN in west chester your going to pay through the nose and pay for caps as well. A friend of mine here had ISDN prior to getting Comcast HSI, he was paying about $100 a month for it (including per-minute charges). [/QUOTE] -- DRM == Doesn't Read MP3s
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Go Chargers7 Fa Shizzle Ma Nizzle Premium join:2002-09-24 Huntington Beach, CA	reply to pnh102 said by pnh102: said by Sarah: I'm just praying they won't institute bandwidth caps For me that would be the straw that breaks the camel's back. We have way too many TVs for digital cable or satellite to be economical. But I use the heck out of my internet connection. If they cap it then I'll most likely be back on dialup... or maybe ISDN, I am not sure. I still think that hard caps are not going to happen. Too many people are going to get pissed off and cancel. I've said it before, but I think the cable companies have too much to lose if too many subscribers quit their broadband service (in way of stranded investments, etc.) so it may not be in their best interests to start capping people. No you won't...not for 5 seconds. You use the internet so much that you will bend over and take the $15 increase not to have to deal with dial up...just like the rest of us. All these threats about people going back to dial up are all nonsense. Hell, I switched from Ultralink back to Choicelink and I'm already pulling my hair out when there is nothing slow about 1.8Mb. Once you get used to the speed, you won't do without it. -- Made in America; tested in Japan.
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pnh102 Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty Premium join:2002-05-02 Mount Airy, MD	said by Go Chargers7: No you won't...not for 5 seconds. You use the internet so much that you will bend over and take the $15 increase not to have to deal with dial up...just like the rest of us. ... Once you get used to the speed, you won't do without it. If I can't afford it, then I'll have to! Seriously though, if the price of internet access increased to the point where it put a serious dent in my budget, say if it came down to choosing to pay the electric bill or the internet bill, then clearly, the internet loses in this one. You're forgetting that the vast majority of people in the USA view broadband as a toy, or a luxury item. There is a tiny minority of Americans who frequent websites such as this who do not hold this view, but given broadband's lukewarm reception in the USA, and the prevailing view (though it won't be implemented until a serious loss of customers occurs) that lower prices are the only way to increase the customer base, I can reasonably conclude that price hikes will hit a ceiling at which point 99% of the customers are gonna say "screw this" and not bother with it anymore. -- DRM == Doesn't Read MP3s
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achuchma join:2001-04-11 Tampa, FL	reply to ki1o I thought @home went belly up almost 2 years ago. I'm surprised you had to change your ATTBI email address so often. I signed up with attbi shortly after @home blew up, and my email address has been @attbi.com since then. -- Join the telecom unemployment line. We'll be serving punch and pie.
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ki1o Premium join:2001-04-12 Atlanta, GA	said by achuchma: I thought @home went belly up almost 2 years ago. I'm surprised you had to change your ATTBI email address so often. I signed up with attbi shortly after @home blew up, and my email address has been @attbi.com since then. AT&T brought out Mediaone in Atlanta, and Comcast (@home users) in North Atlanta. AT&T moved all the former @home users in Atlanta to the Mediaone network (attbroadband.com). Then a few months later they wanted everyone to be on the same domain, so they moved us to attbi. That's why I had @attbroadband as one of my email addresses. -- Boycott The RIAA
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achuchma join:2001-04-11 Tampa, FL	Okay, that makes sense... Here in Chicago, we just went from @Home to @attbi, mostly because Mediaone and Comcast does not exist in Chicago. -- Join the telecom unemployment line. We'll be serving punch and pie.
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