[ale] OT: tech support hell at Mindspring--followup

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Mon Mar 22 08:13:40 EST 2004


Jim,
How are you dealing with your legacy email address that others might know? 
Plus, how long did it take to move all your listservs and subscriptions over 
to the new email?  A full day to work thru all of it?  I am just curious since 
I am seriously planning a switchover and making a list so I don't forget any 
login that might be needing to send email to the new address.

Think about it:
Phone company
Credit card companies
Every site you've bought from
Every software package you've registered for
Listservs
and so on.

My list is getting too long for comfort.
Dow


Jim Philips wrote:
> Okay. I made the switch to Speedfactory...although that wasn't without 
> incident. At first, I couldn't get my NIC to talk to their modem, no way, no 
> how. I even tried plugging in the old modem. The NIC talked to it fine. I 
> even drove out to Speedfactory's office and got them to switch out the modem. 
> When nothing was working, I decided as a last ditch attempt to switch out all 
> of the cables, ethernet and phone. Ta da! That did it. The same cables that 
> worked fine with my other modem wouldn't work with this one. Go figure. 
> Anyway, it's a big relief not only to dump Mindspring, but to dump PPP and 
> PPPoE. DHCP is so easy.
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