At 01:20 PM 1/12/02 -0500, Ted Mozer wrote the following: >As any of you Excite/Comcast customers know, our email addresses are >changing soon. > >Would like suggestions on how might be the best way to inform those in your >address book of the new address?
Send one e-mail message to yourself with a Bcc to all users in the address book informing them that after "so and so" date your new e-mail address will be "such and such". Just in case, add a message to your signature stating the same thing (you can eliminate this after a month or so). Hopefully, this will prevent your address book friends from ignoring the new reply-to address. For some strange reason, many people always use the address book address to start a new message rather than replying-to the old message (which will automatically have the correct e-mail address). Subscribe to all mailing lists using your new e-mail address and unsubscribe to all mailing lists using your old address prior to the change. It's a little difficult to unsubscribe using your new e-mail address (:>). If the changeover is instant with no possibility of using the new address before the old address is invalid then you will have to improvise. Make sure you have a list of mailing lists and subscribe to them as soon as possible using the new e-mail address. For each mailing list you belong too, see if their is an administrative contact and send e-mail to them explaining what happened and to unsubscribe the old address and re-subscribe the new address. (I do this with my listserv mailing list for those individuals that inform me. Many mailing lists have a similar administrative function, that is unsubscribe one address and subscribe a new address.) >Also, does anyone know of any free email forwarding programs?? E-mail forwarding services allow you to use one e-mail address as your main address and then forward e-mail to your real e-mail address. However, you must have an account with the forwarding service and use it as your primary e-mail address. See http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_forward.htm for a list. I'd recommend Pobox... You cannot use an e-mail forwarding service to have e-mail forwarded from Excite to Comcast, that is a no-no because it implies "relaying" of e-mail which is now banned by most SMTP mail handlers. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
