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