MediaOne and Bad Service
You've gotta wonder who's running the store at AT&T @Home now that they've bought MediaOne, my cable modem provider. I want them to keep my old MediaOne email address as a forwarding mailbox to the new @Home address. This is very simple to do and costs them absolutely nothing. In fact, it's allow them to move me without my knowledge and then tell me that I have some period of time to use the new mailbox. Very clean. Very simple.
I have absolutely no confidence that they will do such a thing. They are, after all, AT&T.
The plan I've formulated for this problem is to get a domain for just the family. Good enough to use for my business email as well as for Liza and the kids. Liza and I threw a bunch of ideas out, and I checked all of them against the registry database and found a few that are OK, but none that are really stellar. We were totally surprised that some of our best names were taken - even those that I can't believe were taken. It was, and is, really surprising.
So first I need to register the domain and then I need to point it to a web hoster like WebPipe and move the pages from AT&T/MediaOne to the hoster. This way I don't have to worry about email or web site ever again. That will be a relief. But first we need a good name for the family...