{"id":140,"date":"2001-04-24T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2001-04-24T17:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-05-09T05:15:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T11:15:47","slug":"mediaone-and-bad-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/140","title":{"rendered":"MediaOne and Bad Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I have absolutely no confidence that they will do such a thing. They are, after all, AT&T.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>So first I need to register the domain and then I need to point it to a web hoster like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpipe.net\/\">WebPipe<\/a> 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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve gotta wonder who&#8217;s running the store at AT&#038;T @Home now that they&#8217;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&#8217;s allow them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}