On 11/28/01 2:19 PM, "Eric L. Strobel" <fyzycyst_at_home.com> wrote:
> at the temporal coordinates: 11/28/01 2:02 PM, the entity known as Laurent
> Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com conveyed the following:
>
>>
>> On 11/28/01 1:34 PM, "Eric L. Strobel" <fyzycyst_at_home.com> 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?
>>
>> So, what are the @Home customers doing about it? I know how painful it is
>> sometimes to move to a new email address, but, pardon me if I ask, are all
>> the @Home customers waiting to see if the service will be really interrupted
>> on Friday? I know that, for my part, I would have already moved to a new
>> provider already...
>>
>> -Laurent.
>
> Well, since I've never used any of the Excite "features", I never really
> paid much attention to the whole Excite bankruptcy thing. Comcast did send
> an e-mail out a while back that was basically "Service should continue
> uninterrupted and if we find out anything to change that we'll let you
> know." So, *today* we get the e-mail that our service may get interrupted
> on Friday. Not anywhere near enough time to do anything much. Comcast is
> offering an alternate dialup service, but it's NetZero, which doesn't
> support Macs. I suppose if I have to, I'll dial into AOL, but that's only a
> temporary solution (and potentially expensive, too).
Ah, I see. They basically didn't care to keep you informed... Well, good
luck and hope you'll keep your service!
-Laurent.
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