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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? -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Michael Surato | | College of Arts and Letters | | Michigan State University | | 320 Linton Hall | | East Lansing, MI 48824 | | Voice: (517) 353-0778 Fax: (517) 355-0159 | +-------------------------------------------+ >>> 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 >