Hixnet/ Onedotcom WTF???

[kingstonza]

So for about 10 years I have been a Hixnet subscriber (am guessing, but its been about that) - first as a dialup user and, later, ADSL.
My Hixnet email address has been spread far and wide in the last decade. It's the one I've used as I've changed jobs/cities etc.

Then yesterday I get a terse mail:

"Due to an internal review and strategy decision to realign our core focus as a service provider, it is with regret that we notify you of our intention to cancel your agreement for the provisioning of services.
This serves as a 30 day notice period, therefore our last day of service provision to you will be 30 November 2011.
We at ONEdotCOM thank you for your support over the years." (I didnt know this before, but evidently OnedotCom own Hixnet....)

A subsequent letter confirmed that my Hixnet address will cease to work (except for a one month forwarding service they are kindly offering)

So that's it. After 10 years, 30 months notice and BOOM....my online identity vanishes.

Thanks for squat OnedotCom, whoever you are. How hard could it have been to leave the server up for, say, 6 months to forward mails for people?

GMAIL or my own domain, here I come.