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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]> > 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] Calendar HTML - http://www.icalx.com/html/troymurray72/month.php?cal=Work iCalendar - http://www.icalx.com/public/troymurray72/Work.ics