Oh my, what a huge problem

January 21st, 2009

So I was doing routine maintenance and realized that our contact page had the wrong email address listed! The email form still sent to the correct address, but the email link that lets people manually send mail was totally wrong, and it was wrong for a very long time. I went ahead and fixed it, it goes straight to Joe’s personal email now. But as I sit here I wonder how many lost emails went to that comcast.net email?

This is a good lesson for everyone, I try and explain to people that using comcast email or other ISP email services is not a good idea. The reason it’s not a good idea is because when you leave your ISP, you lose your email. You may think well I’ll never leave me ISP, but don’t be too sure. Even if you move to a different city and keep your current ISP, you will still have to change email addresses.

I would highly recommend signing up for Gmail or Yahoo so you avoid this ever happening to you. It took a while but I did get Joe off comcast.net email and on to Gmail by Google.