Email Confusion
I have several email addresses, including one I’ve had for 8 or 9 years that is associated with my old dial up Internet service. The multiple email address helped smooth transition when an account was changed due to an ISP being sold or deluges of spam.
Now, a “perfect storm” has conspired to change all of my email addresses, all at the same time. EV1.NET, an ISP that offered dial up service for $10.83 a month, is ending their ISP business on November 11, 2006 (they will be focusing on their Internet server business instead). The email addresses will be converted to PeoplePC.com addresses. Forwarding will continue for a year. This account is used for all my on-line businesses, on my dozen or so websites in dozens of pages, so this will be a daunting change to implement.
Our broadband access was with Adelphia cable, which went belly-up after a scandel and is being sold to either Comcast or Time-Warner. In our area, it’s Time-Warner. Adelphia.net email addresses will be transitioned to Time-Warner’s RoadRunner.com email addresses on November 8. All of my personal email for family and friends is associated with the email accounts I have on Adelphia.net (I suppose my troubles with Adelphia.net are less important than the trouble the owners of the company found themselves in!)
But even that transition may be short lived. If Verizon ever gets their FIOS (or FTTP: Fiber To The Premises) service up and running in our town, I’ll be switching again. They keep promising “next year” (but that’s been going on for two years now.)
The only email address I can really control is one on my own domains, so I’m transitioning to using “frank” at “frankhagan.com” for all of my business email. I’m not as concerned about changing personal email addresses … maybe it will keep the spammers busy trying to catch up to me!
Having your own domain means you can control the email address forever. You don’t even need a website, as there are email services you can obtain with very low cost, that allow you to use your own domain name and personalized, never-sold, never-taken-away, email address.
