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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]> Assistant Director Academic Technology Services Michigan State University