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
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>
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Lisa Hines Berg
Academic Technology Services
Michigan State University
(517)-432-7368
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