I still pine for my old ATT email address

jacksonharbor@att.net was the email address I used for the beginnings of the kit business.  The island was still dialup internet service then.  I had signed up for ATT Worldnet which had an 800 number that you called into - they then charged you for every minute of connect time on a monthly basis.  I remember one friend emailing a greeting card attachment that cost me like $4 to download !  But overall it wasn't that bad a deal until ATT dropped Worldnet - there was no way to keep my old email address :(  I've mentioned this before:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/04/when-internet-changes-its-usually-for.html

So when I finally got this new cell phone going I thought:  hey, sign up for a free att.net email address !  I had never been able to try this before because you had to have cell service to get an att.net email address.

So I tried it and got this:

I then tried sending a message to jacksonharbor@att.net via gmail and got this:

so I don't know what's going on, I could probably pursue this but it's already been 15 years.  It would have been nice to get that email address back :(  I suppose it's good that no one else can take that email address either.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm