<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Victoria L. Herring <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:VLH@herringlaw.com">VLH@herringlaw.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks. I'll let my friend know but more importantly I'm going to<br>
let Mediacom know...it's a problem at their end and it needs to be<br>
fixed.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>(to the list in general, not specifically to Victoria)<br><br>Hi, if I could just make an off-hand comment. You really shouldn't use @<a href="http://mchsi.com">mchsi.com</a> email addresses or those from your ISP. Right now you use mediacom for Internet. Do you think you'll always use it or is there a possibility that something better will come out later? If something better does come out and you decide to switch you'll have to go through a significant amount of effort to let everyone that you may want to correspond with your new address. In many cases people have you in their address book and they really don't know where that is or how to change it. It will be a pain for you and them. It will make you strongly consider not switching.<br>
<br>Now it is possible that Mediacom will not in the future have as good of a service as they do today. If that happens you will want to change because you're unhappy with the quality of service you get but the thought of loosing touch with all of the people will make you suffer through it.<br>
<br>A better solution is to subscribe to an outside service for your email. Gmail or hotmail work fine because they're free and the companies behind them will likely exist far into the future and they're pretty agnostic about how you use their service. .mac is not free but it's really not too expensive and provides the same benefits.<br>
<br>An even better solution for those who have the means is to switch to using a vanity email account. For example, I'm @<a href="http://bearfruit.org">bearfruit.org</a>. For $10/year you can register your own personal domain with GoDaddy and for only a small fee above that have your email hosted through them. You can then forward your email to your @<a href="http://mchsi.com">mchsi.com</a> or hotmail or whatever you like and if you get fed up with that service you just change where your email is forwarded to. Your email address will forever be the same <a href="mailto:you@yourname.com">you@yourname.com</a> even if the mailbox where that mail gets delivered changes over time.<br>
<br>This is just my $0.02 worth.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>