[DM-MUG] slow email MCHSI to DOT MAC?

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Victoria L. Herring <VLH at herringlaw.com>wrote:

> Thanks.  I'll let my friend know but more importantly I'm going to
> let Mediacom know...it's a problem at their end and it needs to be
> fixed.
>

(to the list in general, not specifically to Victoria)

Hi, if I could just make an off-hand comment. You really shouldn't use @
mchsi.com 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.

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.

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.

An even better solution for those who have the means is to switch to using a
vanity email account. For example, I'm @bearfruit.org. 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 @mchsi.com 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 you at yourname.com even if the mailbox
where that mail gets delivered changes over time.

This is just my $0.02 worth.

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
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