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?
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>>> 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
>
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