On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:00:15 +0100, warren100
<warren.h1@ntlworld.com.invalid> wrote:

>I'm waiting to see what happens, but having had this happen twice now,
>I'm tempted to start with a new email forwarding service elsewhere -

Although I over-complicated things for myself, in my panic, and I 
also seemed to be a bit unlucky the first time, using Yahoo! as a
substitute for Bigfoot seems (from my limited experience so far)
to be quite straightforward.  I've started gradually replacing all
my contacts via Bigfoot e-mail addresses with contacts via Yahoo!
e-mail addresses, starting with the most important. Unfortunately,
I messed up the process at the start by changing a lot of Bigfoot
addresses to addresses at my own domain, so I have to change some
of those again (the less trusted ones!) to Yahoo! addresses.  But
I've also taken steps to protect myself from spam if my domain is
ever compromised, so that was worth doing as well.

>problem is, the point of using bigfoot was so I never had to update my
>email contacts again !

It's a real pain in the ***!  I'm just glad that I never got around
to creating Bigfoot addresses for all my family, as I so helpfully
intended to do.

-- 
Angus Rodgers
(formerly twirlip@bigfoot.com,
but Bigfoot has gone tits-up.)