I think they did it to keep track of alumni. http://alumni.umich.edu/online-services/forwarding.php
I don't think you have to do anything to take advantage of it. You'd have to contact itd to find out if it applies to you, but my guess is that given the relatively small number of non-alumni, it's not worth trying to keep the two groups separate. Anyway, which address do you want? gmail? Nate 2008/5/20 Steve Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Do umich.edu addresses really last forever? I know I only got 'stever' > after they found that the previous owner had left. Maybe that policy > applies to students but not faculty... though I pity the fool who gets stuck > with my email address if they take it away from me. > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:12 PM, nathan binkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> In preparation of the repository release, I'm fixing up a bunch of >> bugs in the current repo. One thing is all of the various user names. >> If you would like to change or update your username in the >> repository, please let me know. For those that have multiple >> usernames, I've picked the one that I think is best, unless you tell >> me differently. >> >> I personally would appreciate if everyone chose what they think might >> be a durable e-mail address for themselves. For example, I will use >> my binkert.org address. @umich.edu address last forever, but it's up >> to you to set up forwarding. eecs address only last as long as you >> have an account. >> >> Nate >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
