(Excerpts from a message dated 10-03-99, Ron Nicholls to Bob Wright)

Hi Ron--

BW>  ML>   As you may remember, IBM sold this
BW>  ML> operation to AT&T last year for a mess of pottage and several other
BW>  ML> considerations.
BW> 
BW> But mostly the pottage...
BW> 
BW>  ML>     It seems that ibm.net has classified me as a "consumer" customer
BW>  ML> (which, in truth, I am), not as a "business" customer.
BW> 
BW> Odd... I didn't get classified as a "consumer" customer 
BW> (although, in fact, I am).   Everything in the letter I got 
BW> refers to my ID being "customer@attglobal.net" where it's 
BW> now "customer@ibm.net".

RN>Same here, except "news1"  is still 'news1.ibm.net'.

RN>All this changed over at the last log on, apparently, and I wonder if
  >the 'news1' is a glitch.

    Since the above interchange with Bob, I managed to tell ibm.net that
I didn't want to move to WorldNet.  Come October 1, I found myself on
AT&T Business net, with an @attglobal.net address.  Since I am using the
IBM OS/2 Internet Access Dialer (DIALER.EXE), my User ID object was
updated automatically on the morning of October 1.  Although I don't use
it, "news1" is now news1.attglobal.  The pop3 server is now
pop3.attglobal.net and the smtp server is smtp1.attglobal.net.  Before
changing the addresses used by MR/2 ICE, (which was not updated
automatically) I checked it out with the old addresses, and it worked
fine, indicating that the old server addresses are being forwarded (for
a year) along with the old user address.

    What dialer are you using?

    Regards,

        --Murray

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