changing e-mail, any tips?

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<p>After about 6 years with the same provider, we are finally changing services and getting our internet through cable instead of DSL through our phone company. Unfortunately, we do just about everything on-line, including banking. Any tips on how to tell everyone our new address? Will it screw up our bookmarks too?</p>

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<p>Yes. Get a gmail address or even something like yahoo so you never have to change again. Also, it can be accessed from anywhere in the exact same way from any computer. THen email everybody in your address book before you change, giving them your new email and promising never to have to do it again.</p>

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<p>Most e-mail services have a forwarding service. Both your DSL and your cable should have it. One of the things that cable does have is customer service reps who can walk you through the process. And since your e-mail was with their primary competitor, they should be more than willing to help!</p>

<p>I wouldn’t go with gmail at all. Everyone I know who’s done that has had problems with it. Stick with your new cable e-mail.</p>

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<p>^agree with 3bm103 about getting an email account that won’t change when you change providers. I’ve used yahoo for that purpose.</p>

<p>As for bookmarks, aren’t bookmarks connected with the browser you use? I’d be interested to know if they disappear when you change providers.</p>

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<p>Everybody I know has changed to gmail because it has less problems. I’ve been using it since 2004 and would never change back. It might also be because I know a lot of younger people. People who will probably be living in different places every year or two for awhile. I can’t imagine how thrilled they would be to have to change their email address every time.</p>

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<p>I have a free email forwarding service from my college alumni association. It is wonderful. I have my email forwarded to my gmail account, which I have had since the days when you had to have an invitation to get one. I have NEVER had a problem with my gmail. I love it.</p>

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<p>Get a cheap domain name of your own and create your own permanent email address</p>