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

[James P. Kinney III]

Our solution was to keep the minimum account on Earthstink to keep the
same email addresses active for the next year. All of the account email
is getting forwarded to the new addresses and all outgoing email has the
new domain (a separate issue). As the principle in the office actually
uses AOL for their primary email account, it is no problem. The others
are using the new address effective immediately with intentions of
pulling the plug on the mindspring.com addresses in a year.

It's the standard crap of a business moving to a new address and having
to notify old customers and get new stationary. It's not something to be
done lightly.

I figure after a year, the old contact info can die out. 

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:15, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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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