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IA | Usee free web email services Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc.
Never use your ISP email account because you never know what will happen. | |
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bigunk
Gort, Klattu Birada Nikto
join:2001-02-10
Santa Clarita, CA
 ·AT&T Yahoo
| Re: Usee free web email services That's why I own part of my email provider. We were an ISP in the dial-up days, and we still provide those services. We simply concentrate on clean, secure email for businesses and individuals, as well as web hosting and design services. My address hasn't changed in a good long time.
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TK Junk Mail
Go ahead, make my day
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join:2002-03-03
Margate City, NJ
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 ·Comcast
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February 2nd, @12:41PM
| »Insight Customers Concerned About Comcast Transition The date for the switch hasn’t been announced yet but residents anticipating the problem are not pleased. »www.sj-r.com/News/stories/24518.aspThe change may be catching some customers off guard.
“I didn’t know that was going to happen,” said Lance Adams of Springfield, an Insight broadband customer. “I would rather it not happen.”
Adams said his family has had to change e-mail addresses before, when they switched from dial-up to broadband access, and found the process inconvenient.
Cheryl Wise of Springfield said she knew Comcast had bought the Insight systems but hadn’t thought about a change in e-mail address.
“It is probably going to be inconvenient, but it’s something that can be dealt with,” she said. The sun coming up in the morning catches some people off guard. But other than 2 people in the story saying it might be inconvenient, I see no big Insight complaints like the BBR story claims.
And no complaints in the Comcast forum thread linked to in the above story either:
»Insight to Comcast Customer Transition, over here!
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Old_Grouch
If you don't want to know...don't ask
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join:2004-05-26
Greenwood, IN
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·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Usee free web email services said by TK Junk Mail  :The sun coming up in the morning catches some people off guard. But other than 2 people in the story saying it might be inconvenient, I see no big Insight complaints like the BBR story claims. And no complaints in the Comcast forum thread linked to in the above story either: » Insight to Comcast Customer Transition, over here! I know this is slightly off the path, but I went to Insight's local web site to check on package rates for my cable (current Insight customer) and the web site referred me to Comcast due to the transition.
I went to Comcast's web site and they would not give me information since I'm not their customer.
I wrote their customer service folks and asked about the circle they built and was assured that Comcast looks forward to serving me. No explanation, no clarification, no offer to help.
I am neither amazed that the sun rises in the same part of the sky each day nor surprised at the shift in providers. But, both companies seem to be a bit out of sync in the hand off for cable service so it isn't surprising that folks are being surprised at their "support" of other services as well.
IMHO
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Karl Uppiano
join:2003-02-02
Ferndale, WA
| How hard would it be for Comcast to allow an alias email address, so the old address still works? It seems like a no-brainer.
BTW, what's the problem with Verizon email? I've used it for years with no problems. Clean, basic Internet email with no spam filters. My email client has a spam filter, so I have full control of it. | |
| | | NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Re: Usee free web email services said by KUppiano :How hard would it be for Comcast to allow an alias email address, so the old address still works? It seems like a no-brainer. How would that work? Is Comcast going to get the Insight BB email domain? For email to work, the email domain must have an MX record pointing to the domain gateway mail server. Unless Comcast is getting full control of the Insight BB email domain, how would the DNS system discriminate between the Comcast gateway domain server and the Insight gateway domain server?
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| | dpp3530
join:2002-11-02
Bethel Park, PA
| When Adelphia in my area transitioned to Comcast, they set up forwarding so that the adelphia.net addresses forwarded to your new comcast.net addresses. In fact, that was about a year ago, and the adelphia.net addresses finally stopped working two weeks ago. I'm betting that they'll do the same in this case, with the "migration tool" setting up forwarding for a period of time.
I have been using Gmail as my primary account, and that's the address I give out, but many of my friends never bothered to update their contacts, so I was still checking Adelphia/Comcast mail too. Only reason I noticed that the adelphia address stopped working is that my spam went down by 75%. | |
| | Mordhem
Home Sweet Home Maryland
join:2003-07-10
Baltimore, MD | Gmail is the best  you will never use anything else once you start to use it trust me! | |
| | | NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA | Re: Usee free web email services I have a Gmail account. I rarely use it. Most heavy use is my hobby domain. I can change ISP, or host, without having to change email addresses.
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| | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Someone should have told me 9 years ago lol. | |
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woody7
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Torrance, CA
·DSL EXTREME
| pffftttt...... Good God, How hard is it to have a non ISP email? Most kid's to day know how to get/set up one. Back when I had Mindspring, I saw the writing on the wall and have had MSN,Netscape,Yahoo,Gmail, and others that have been adequate. Heck, I even have a goDaddy email account with a domain I registered. If your ISP was changed for what ever reason, you probably knew it was going to change, and you had adequate time to do so. Yes it is a pain for your friends,but it is now far easier to put you/them in your new address book. Peace 
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compugeek
Have you pooped today?
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join:2002-07-30
Pickerington, OH
| Re: pffftttt...... @yahoo.com could be changing to microsoft.com, msn.com, msnbc.com, live.com... Sorry had to toss that in there.
Also shouldn't the title of the article be Former Insight Customers?
Geek
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| | | NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Re: pffftttt...... said by compugeek :@yahoo.com could be changing to microsoft.com, msn.com, msnbc.com, live.com... Sorry had to toss that in there. Or not. If Microsoft were to buy Yahoo!, they would buy the whole enchilada, including the domain name.
There is a precedent for an ISP buyout where the buying entity controls the bought domain, and keeps it in service. Everybody who had 'ameritech.net', 'flash.net', 'nvbell.net', 'pacbell.net', 'prodigy.net', 'snet.net', 'swbell.net', and 'wan.net' got to keep their email addresses, even after SBC bought them and created the 'sbcglobal.net' domain. And, when SBC bought AT&T, the only change was giving new customers 'att.net' email; and when AT&T bought Bellouth, noting changed; 'bellsouth.net' email addresses still work.
It all depends upon whether the buyer gets the domain, or just the customers. AFAIK, Comcast is not getting control of the Insight BB email domains.
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| | benc
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join:2007-06-17
Glen Carbon, IL
·Charter Pipeline
 ·Future Nine Corpor..
·Callcentric
·AT&T Midwest
| Solution To E-mail Problem There's G-Mail, of course.
But then I got to thinking, with G-Mail:
- You can send and receive E-mails without ads in the E-mails.
- The web interface is optional, you don't have to use it (so any ads there may not be seen by all users)
- POP Access is free, while with Yahoo! and MSN they charge. Of course your E-mail software has no ads.
- Spam e-mail doesn't appear to be a problem, so Google clearly isn't selling lists with your E-mail address on it.
So, how can Google afford to do this? Where is the revenue coming from? Surely they can't be doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
I won't pretend to know the answer, but maybe they sift through the users' e-mail messages and determine marketing data which they can resell. Even if they don't sell e-mail address lists, or lists with any sort of personal information, they can still learn a lot about you. Isn't that a little bit creepy?
The Solution:
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Run your own E-mail server.
Pros:
- It's more private.
- A lot more available storage (but how many people need over 512MB?).
- More flexible.
- - You can have as many e-mail addresses as you want. Dedicate an address to every website you use, and every unique purpose (personal, business, volunteer groups, etc.)
- - No restrictions on attachment size or type, unless you want to impose such a restriction. Apparently G-mail doesn't allow ZIP file attachments.
Cons:
- You can't be one of those people who turn off their PCs when they are done using them. Not an issue since I assume nearly everyone runs their PCs 24/7. At a minimum, you can't shut off the E-mail server ever.
- E-mails can bounce if your ISP goes down.
- E-mails can bounce if the power goes out and you have no backup power.
- You have to get some sort of DNS service (own domain, DDNS). It's not free, but it is inexpensive.
- You must have broadband for the always-on capability.
- You can't have an ISP that blocks E-mail servers. Though you could just use a different port.
- You MUST MAKE SURE you don't have an open relay, though default configurations don't have that enabled by default.
I have my own E-mail server, and it has come in handy at times. For consolidation, I just run it on my router PC, which is really a "does-it-all" server. | |
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fishmaster
Premium
join:2004-10-08
Rockford, IL
·Comcast
·Insight Communicat..
| Re: Solution To E-mail Problem Aim offers free IMAP & POP access to mail. Witch I use but i don't have an account so to speak, just a sign on name. Live mail has free access to mail via Outlook connector. I have always had a hotmail account.
As for the folks talking about the domains being bought with the take overs, Insight is still in business. So I seriously doubt they would give up their domain name. I believe it would tarnish Comcast's ego to have any other domain name other than comcast.net. | |
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noinsight
@verizon.net | boohoo comcast cant do anything right. here i come verizon!! | |
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Pashune
Your average, anemic person.
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join:2006-04-14
Gautier, MS
·CableOne
·AT&T Southeast
| Re: boohoo said by noinsight :
comcast cant do anything right. here i come verizon!!
...with the exception of upsetting customers, of course. :P
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Jack
@comcast.net
| my 2 cents As stated earlier in this thread Insight is still in business and could not give over thier domain name to Comcast. Concievably with all the buyouts Comcast has done over the past few years they would be maintaining dozens of email domains and email complexes. Those that think this would be a simple endevour obviously do not work in IT.
Also as stated earlier in this thread never rely on ISP mail. You never want your promary email address tied to your ISP. Aside from takeovers such as this case what if you move and thier service is not in your area or you decide to go with another provided. Stick with gmail they are the best and not going anywhere soon. | |
| Crainial
join:2001-11-09
Beloit, WI | UH since Comcast is only buying a PART of insights region, i can understand why users have to transition to new email addresses. Get over it and get Gmail | |
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Insight Customers Concerned About Comcast Transition
