On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Michael Surato wrote:

> Wait a minute. I was under the impression that NetIDs are never  
> deleted, just removed from mail. Is this what you mean, or have I  
> been misinformed?

The NetID itself will not "go away" or be available for reassignment,  
in this context Lisa was referring to the fact that you can choose to  
no longer receive mail at [log in to unmask]

./mk

>
>>>> On 6/27/2008 at 12:19 PM, MSU Network Administrators Group wrote:
>> To change your Netid you submit the following form:
>> http://help.msu.edu/downloads/netidservices/netidchangeform.pdf
>>
>> After the change of Netid has been completed you can have the old  
>> Netid
>> forward to the new one or you can have the old Netid deleted.
>>
>> Lisa Berg
>>
>>
>> Oscar Castaneda wrote:
>>> Troy,
>>> I am gonna tell you what I did. I am the one who generated the  
>>> initial
>>> question on May 6th.
>>> I paid my $10 and picked another netID.
>>>
>>> I used to be castane6. Requested oscar. Now, any email for  
>>> castane6 OR
>>> oscar goes to my same mail.msu.edu mailbox.
>>> I like it and find it very functional and convenient.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Troy Murray wrote:
>>>> So how would one go about adding a different email address to their
>>>> account?  What about a name change?
>>>>
>>>> -t
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 6, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Matt Kolb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On May 6, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Oscar Castaneda wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> List,
>>>>>> Here is a question that I asked several times with folks at the
>>>>>> help desk, but I haven't get a satisfactory answer:
>>>>>> I never liked my castane6 user name and always wanted to change  
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> to something else. So,
>>>>>> when a user pays his/her $10 and gets a new MSU ID (hence a new
>>>>>> email address), what happens to the old email address?
>>>>>> 1. Disappears in limbo?
>>>>>> 2. Gets forwarded to the new one?
>>>>>> 3. The old one stays alive for a while and eventually dies?
>>>>>> 4. Stays for ever and lives in parallel with the other one?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oscar,
>>>>>
>>>>> For e-mail purposes your netid is just a pointer to your account.
>>>>> You can have many pointers to your account.  I for example, have
>>>>> three (mk, muk, and kolbmatt).  I can only login with mk, but I  
>>>>> get
>>>>> mail to any of those three.  The handles stick around forever  
>>>>> until
>>>>> you ask us to remove them.
>>>>>
>>>>> ./mk
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Matt Kolb  <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>>>> Assistant Director
>>>>> Academic Technology Services
>>>>> Michigan State University
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Troy Murray
>>>> Systems Administrator
>>>> Michigan State University
>>>> Biomedical Research and Informatics Center (BRIC)
>>>> 100 Conrad Hall
>>>> East Lansing, MI 48824
>>>> Phone: 517-432-4248
>>>> Fax: 517-353-9420
>>>> E-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Calendar
>>>> HTML - http://www.icalx.com/html/troymurray72/month.php?cal=Work
>>>> <http://www.icalx.com/html/troymurray72/month.php?cal=BRIC+Work>
>>>> iCalendar - http://www.icalx.com/public/troymurray72/Work.ics
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Lisa Hines Berg
>> Academic Technology Services
>> Michigan State University
>> (517)-432-7368
>>
>

-- 
Matt Kolb  <[log in to unmask]>
Assistant Director
Academic Technology Services
Michigan State University