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ATT Broadband Forfeits Mediaone Domain
Kancer was among the many readers to write with news (as carried by the Boston Globe) that "'beginning next month through March 15, current subscribers with (username)@mediaone.net addresses will be required to change them over to an address ending in attbi.com.' Also 'After March 15, any mail sent to a mediaone.net address will be rejected.' What a pain, looks like they are taking down pop mail and replacing it with web-based e-mail as well."
i lost my @home.com address and had to switch to @shaw.ca
i_am_not@home.com is just more funny that i_am_not@haw.ca
they took away the abilty to use a standard client when not hooked to your actual cable modem - so i can't use mail.app or entourage unless i'm at home.
they will only let you get remote mail via an att web page, so it's no longer integrated into the client with all your other mail..
they claim this is an improvement. in order to let you access mail remotely - which every other tin-horn isp can let you do anyway...
1. half speed since dec 1
2. 11% price jack
3. dns sux
4. dhcp pool sux
5. toy mail
if i'm gonna grab my ankles like this, i at least want a free pair of better looking sneakers.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
AT&T bought out Mediaone. Mediaone bought out my cable service, Cablevision. Big fish eat little fish before they can be properly digested
Cut AT&T some slack. I am sure more of us are aware of the complexities of adding mx records to DNS and ensuring said changes are propogated out to each and every DNS server out there.