Moving - anyway to retain email address? (BT Yahoo

Hi,

Currently I'm with BT Yahoo! and hating it. We're on Option 3 and I'm constantly getting majorly flucuating speeds... It might be a line issue, or it might be BT's shaping, but either way I'm willing to try a new ISP (thinking IDNet).

However, there's a problem. It's my parents who pay for the broadband, and my mum uses our BT ISP email address as her primary email address. I assume that changing to IDNet and terminating our BT account is going to result in her losing this email address, but I wondered is there anyway she can keep that account? It's @btinternet.com so I'm guessing that she'll have to just let everyone know her email address will be changing, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Any ideas?

See http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=bt&Number=3045569&page=2&view=expanded&sb=5&o=7&fpart=
This is a thread about the same thing on this site.

Thanks very much Kaufhof - this is actually the first promising bit of information I've heard about BT

It seems I will end up going to PAYG for 90 days at least, which should give my mum time to learn GMail.

GMail? whats wrong with IDNets email service

Nothing, I'm sure - but who knows if we'll stick with IDNet or whatever forever, so it's best to be on the safe side

Glad to have been of help. I think the main thing is to do all you can to help your parents circulate their contacts about a change.