Coping with Changes to e-Mail Address
Monty Solomon
Coping with changes to e-mail address
By Michelle Johnson, 2/24/2003
Are you hopping mad because your e-mail address has changed? Perhaps
your Internet service provider is under new ownership, or your free
e-mail service went belly up. So now you have to send out change of
e-mail notices to a long list of family members, friends, and business
associates. Worse yet, maybe you just paid for business cards that are
suddenly obsolete. Subscribers to AT&T Broadband's Internet service
were pretty outraged recently when Comcast Corp. took over and
announced its Boston area customers would be getting their third e-mail
address in a year. (Comcast later said it would redirect e-mail sent to
AT&T Broadband addresses till the end of next year.) Whatever the
reason, when your e-mail address changes, something usually gets lost
in the mail.
If you've had enough and you're ready to shield your address from the
fallout of mergers and the shaky economy, it's time to stop renting and
buy. Yes, you can own your own e-mail address for life. Well, for as
long as you pay the annual fee for a ''dot com'' address. So, for
instance, you could be ''y...@nameofyourchoice.com.'' I know what you're
thinking: ''Don't I have to have a Web site to be a dot com?'' Nope.
You can use a Web address (also known as a ''domain name'') strictly
for e-mail. And while your Net provider offers you a package that
includes access to the Web and e-mail, you're not required to use its
e-mail address.
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