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Mulindwa When you talk of updates, many of E-mail
addresses of our Hon members do not work.
Good many of them have bounced back. Some of them, when
their accounts were configured, they may not have ever signed in to be prompted
to change their passwords and the period may have lapsed. The other issue, changing servers does not necessarily
mean that you E-mail account changes.
Changing providers, your E-mail goes – though these days you can
pay a fee to have your –personal E-mail for life. -----Original Message----- Netters I have decided to put note on
what many of us have taken for granted, an E-mail address, or Electronic
address, for we have failed to understand how important it is to the people who
communicate with us. Good as technology has become, we
are still having a problem of changing a server and we maintain the old Email
address. That is why they all end up with @ at something, that some thing is
the provider of your E-mail address. Now many times we change these servers due
to several reasons, companies go under belly, we get better services or we even
get cheaper services. The moment we change them, our E-mail addresses change. Now this is the problem we are
finding in Uganda E-mail users, and it does not matter whether they are
companies, Government offices, travel agents, or even government ministers.
When they change a server they do not alert the people who communicate with
them. And it is not necessary to send a note to every body that you have
changed the address, but if your E-mail address is on a permanent list, a list
which you know that we go to, please by all means change it. It is very absurd
when you go to a permanent page like Uganda Pages, a page where I am supposed
to find current information on Uganda companies, and find that all travel
agents which are on Uganda Pages, at least 80% of them have dead E-mail
addresses. When you call the travel agent and ask them why their E-mail address
is bad then she tells you how you have a wrong one, but mom I got it from
Uganda Home pages? Why do I have to go to a list of
Uganda government, and three quarters of MP's email addresses are wrong? As we
speak how many Minister's E-mail addresses are good today? And I take it that
some MP knows that his/her E-mail address is on the Uganda Government page and
that is where we all go to look for them. People computers have a thing called
address, and they all go into that thing, why are the ones in Uganda the only
ones we can not depend on? Please note, that because our
communicating with people is important for example here, Simpatico is giving
better deals these days, but I can not change from my server, for I have been
with him for such a long time and my E-mail address is all over the place. So
if it is looking for cheaper ones, please sacrifice those little Uganda
Shillings and stay where you are. But most of all, if you know that your
address is on a permanent list please up date it. And can some one from Uganda
Government get off their butt and up date that page for crying out loud, or we
still need some one from World Bank to do it for us? Talk about strange days. Edward Mulindwa Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group --- --- |
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