Hell is losing your e-mail address

IT Tech, Atlanta, GA — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:44:43 GMT

User error. Plain and simple.

Hell is losing your e-mail address

John Doe, Seattle, Wash. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:48:49 GMT

One thing small businesses should do is always use thier own email domain rather than a domain. This will help prevent this from happening since it will give you control of your email addresses. If you accidentially delete a mailbox you can quickly recreate that mailbox.

In addition, you look much more professional to have joe@joescupcakefactory.com that joescupcakefactory@hotmail.com or whichever domain.

On top of it all, Microsoft has the office live site which offers free hosting along with email; and Google has thier own under business solutions.

Hell is losing your e-mail address

Paul D — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:30:14 GMT

Typical Verizon arrogance. There is absolutely no reason they could not have restored the address except for the fact it requires them to do something. Their policy is designed to minimize their efforts, customer be dammed. You can bet if it was there problem it would have been resolved immediately.

Hell is losing your e-mail address

Over65, Cincinnati, OH — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:52:06 GMT

Hell is being a Marine in Iragi and having politically correct morons question firing your weapon at a civilian ... not losing your stupid e-mail address.

Hell is losing your e-mail address

VW, chattanooga, tn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:59:52 GMT

Lighten up, this person is asking advice, not trying to save (or condemn) the world!

Hell is losing your e-mail address

IT Chick, Canada — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:04:04 GMT

Never ever ever ever ever use your ISPs email address, especially for business. Register a domain and get someone to host your mail. If you want email for fun, use a free one like, hotmail, gmail or yahoo mail. This eliminates the hassle of creating new email addresses when/if you switch internet providers.

I used to do tech support for many different ISPs and the deleted email address call was the one of the calls I dreaded the most. Contrary to what people believe, unfortunately there is not some button we can click to fix the issue. Trust me, I'd rather click a button and fix the issue than have someone scream at me for 15 minutes.

Hell is losing your e-mail address

Viktor — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:21:12 GMT

Very nice blog.

Hell is losing your e-mail address

Mary Mary, Derry, NH — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:46:09 GMT

A PERFECT EXAMPLE: I live in NH and Verizon moved out of this state for some reason after hooking up my house to recieve thier new (coming soon) cable tv system.Now,Fairpoint OR Fairview (who-ever)bought them out and we are suppose to be STUCK with thier NEW address ex:joe@myfairpoint.net!!!!! this is rediculous!!! I feel sorry for any businesses or ANY-ONE that was using verizon.net.
Maybe I am just one of only a few unfortunate souls out thier. This has taught me a valuable lesson.
THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS INFO!!!!!!