I will be transitioning Internet Service Providers in the next month or two. The hardware connection change has been made, but I still need to make the final step of changing email address with all financials, family, and friends.
Does any LBYM’er have recent personal experience? Looking to borrow a template-sequence-plan of action from anyone who has already been thru the gauntlet.
Suggested outside sources that have useful info?
I am already putting together my to do list, but casting about for inputs and especially gotcha warnings.
And asking the question on LBYM instead of a computer related board because of the higher level of useful participation all around on this board on a wide range of topics.
You could register your own domain name and never have to change it. It isn’t free but not extremely expensive.
Gmail and Outlook accounts are free. You just have to access them to keep them active.
If you can setup mail forwarding. It may last for awhile a catch any accounts that you missed.
I use KeePass to keep track of all accounts and passwords. The quantity is large and it would be unpleasant to change email associated with all of the accounts.
I had a non ISP domain email that I had used since about 1999.
It had an amazing spam blocker.
I had it auto forward to my Gmail (when that came along a few years later) -
The domain was taken over and restructured, about a year ago. There was abundant warning that email would be dropped.
I am still finding places where that was my email used for sign in/ sign up, because i will receive a paper communication.
I thought the domain would always be there (through a professional society), and was wrong.
It was my default email and has been a huge PITA.
I thought the domain would always be there (through a professional society), and was wrong.
My daughter’s email at her top tier university in 2000 was “firstname@universityname.edu” and they promised she could keep it for life. How cool! Obviously, subsequent students with her first name would have to be “firstnamenumber” or “firstname.lastname,” so her email was kind of special.
After she graduated, turned out there’d be a fee to keep the email address, so she abandoned it. Apparently it wasn’t that special.
I still use the email address from my first dial-up internet account I set up with the local phone company. That phone company is long gone. It was purchased by AT&T. Years later they sold the local phone business to Frontier. AT&T kept that domain, and others, alive but the email is all handled by Yahoo. I really like the Yahoo web-based email interface.
I’m sure I’m not the only one of AT&T’s “customers” who is a bit paranoid about them cutting off support. This has created a cottage industry among scammers telling us we will loose it all unless we “click on this link”. For a while I was getting several such emails a day. Not so many now.
My college offered a supposedly permanent email address to alumni. I used it on handouts for conference presentations because people sometimes wrote to me years later with questions.
The school has since changed mail servers and disabled such addresses.
(I wonder what % of grads pay the fee to keep their address?)
Not very many. I manage registrations for a local chapter events. One routine retired attendee uses a university email and I don’t remember any other emails ending in edu.
My college offered a supposedly permanent email address to alumni. I used it on handouts for conference presentations because people sometimes wrote to me years later with questions.
The school has since changed mail servers and disabled such addresses.
My daughter’s university just used gmail addresses.
