AT&T Portal Madness

At our office, we use AT&T DSL. We also have AT&T phone service, which comes with their "U-Verse" service for voicemail and digital fax. We really like this service because when we get voicemail, we get an email with a .wav file, and digital versions of faxes. Switching to this service also dramatically cut our monthly bill, a nice side effect.

The DSL account is connected to a legacy email address back when AT&T was known as SBC 'round these parts. Anyone with an account with one of these older email addresses probably knows they'll get re-directed to an AT&T portal-like site if they try to type in the domain. Invariably you'll be asked for your email address, and asked to select from a very large list of prevously gobbled-up online services.

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