If you are on a Mac, get a Mac.com address, unsubscribe and subscribe to
the list again, Apple probably won't go out of business any time soon.
Then maybe you should consider switching ISP now, use one of those AOL
free 50 hours CD while you are waiting for AT&T to setup a new cable
connection, I recv one of those AOL thingy once a while in the mail.
On $B_at_14|;0(B, 11 28, 2001, at 02:26 , Eric L. Strobel wrote:
>
> at the temporal coordinates: 11/28/01 2:02 PM, the entity known as BK at
> bk_newtontalk_at_yahoo.com conveyed the following:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 03:34 , Eric L. Strobel wrote:
>>
>>> There are a number of us on this list who are @Home customers. Excite
>>> is
>>> making noise like they want to shutdown the entire @Home system this
>>> Friday,
>>> as part of their ongoing bankruptcy saga. So, just a warning to those
>>> running the list (and everyone else)... If there really is a service
>>> interruption, I don't know what that many bounced messages will do.
>>> Further, I'd guess that a bunch of us might get automagically
>>> unsubscribed.
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Yahoo doesn't look like they would get into bankruptcy anytime soon, so
>> why don't you sign up for a free Yahoo email account. Looking at your
>> mail address I would say you have a great chance to get the very same
>> name at Yahoo 'cause I don't think this one will have been taken
>> already ;-)
>>
>> Then, unsubscribe and resubscribe with your new account and if
>> available
>> set a forward on the old account so that for as long as it remains
>> alive
>> it will divert all inbound traffic to you.
>>
>> Of course there are others like USA.net and M$'s h0tmail, but Yahoo is
>> the only one I know of that gives you POP access for free - all you
>> need
>> to do is opt in to a once per week "spamming" of your choice. I.e. if
>> you select "travel" you'll get a mail from Travelocity with cheap last
>> minute airline deals once a week, usually Fridays. That's a reasonable
>> deal if you ask me.
>>
>> rgds
>> BK
>>
>
> And exactly how would us @Home cable modem users get at Yahoo to use the
> free e-mail??? That's at least as big an issue as anything else. It's
> not
> just losing the e-mail addy (though, thinking about figuring out just
> who
> all I'd need to notify of any permanent change is making my head spin),
> but
> potentially a complete loss of Internet access.
>
> - Eric.
>
>
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