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Theodoric · 02-04-2004, 20:12

Now that I'm starting to receive what looks like increasing amounts of spam, I'm thinking of changing my ntl address for a clean start. I remembered a thread on this subject, searched it out and found that you can do it by changing your user name.

It seems to me that it would be useful to have a transition period during which the old and new addresses were both active so that that you could notify people in your address book at your leisure. It occurred to me that this could be done by setting up your old email address as a secondary address under the new email address, then deleting it when you've successfully notified everyone. Is this possible or am I just trying to be too clever by half? It assumes, I suppose, that deleted addresses are tossed back into the pool of available addresses.

02-04-2004, 20:12	#1
Theodoric Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Posts: 2,974	Changing email address: Creating a transition period Now that I'm starting to receive what looks like increasing amounts of spam, I'm thinking of changing my ntl address for a clean start. I remembered a thread on this subject, searched it out and found that you can do it by changing your user name. It seems to me that it would be useful to have a transition period during which the old and new addresses were both active so that that you could notify people in your address book at your leisure. It occurred to me that this could be done by setting up your old email address as a secondary address under the new email address, then deleting it when you've successfully notified everyone. Is this possible or am I just trying to be too clever by half? It assumes, I suppose, that deleted addresses are tossed back into the pool of available addresses.