[ale] OT: tech support hell at Mindspring--followup

[Geoffrey]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> Jim, How are you dealing with your legacy email address that others
> might know? Plus, how long did it take to move all your listservs and
>  subscriptions over to the new email?  A full day to work thru all of
>  it?  I am just curious since I am seriously planning a switchover
> and making a list so I don't forget any login that might be needing
> to send email to the new address.

I'm not Jim, but I've been through this as well. :)  I would suggest 
that you want an overlap, where you retain the old address for a short 
time while you get your new one setup.  You can generally change your 
old dsl service to a low end dialup service in order to facilitate this 
with lower costs.

The other possibility is to get one of the free web mail addresses 
before you transistion.  Forward/change all your old email to the free 
web mail address, continue to monitor your old address until you're sure 
you've taken care of all the loose ends.  Then get your new service 
setup and begin to migrate from the free web service to the new service.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft