Tag Archive for 'email'

R.I.P. Shawneelink Email Address!

Published
by
Michael
on April 2, 2008
in Journal and Webmaster's Notes
. 1 Comment

Occasionally I learn that someone has been trying to contact me through my old Shawneelink email address. Unfortunately sending friendly messages, your cousin’s baby pictures, forwarded spam, love letters, and YouTube links to that address is about as effective as printing them out, stuffing them in an old paper envelope, and burning it. To put it simply, that address is no more.

shawneelinkaddress

If you have this address in your address book, or penciled in a coffee-stained notebook opposite your online banking passwords (I’m not telling how I know), please DELETE IT, cross it out, or whatever you must do.

That address has been defunct for about eight months now, so if you’ve sent anything important (money, fan mail, etc.) to that address during that time, I haven’t received it.

Here is the address you should use:

michaelprewittaddress

Besides being easier to remember, it has this major benefit: It works. You can, of course, also contact me through this website. Or at my workplace. Or by phone. Or chat. Or Facebook or MySpace. Or just Google for my name—it’s everywhere!

If you want a free and easy way to keep your contact information current, try Plaxo. It synchronizes your contact information with the latest updates from other members. Works on Macs and Windows PCs. I’ve been using it for some time now, and quite a few of my friends use it too. It seems to work reliably, and has been a great help. The only gripe I’ve had is that it has merged contacts who shared an email address, such as married couples. But if you make sure Plaxo is set to require confirmation before making changes, rather than working in fully automatic mode, that kind of error won’t happen. (It doesn’t hurt to backup your data first, either. I believe Plaxo does this automatically the first time you run it, at least in Outlook.)

Now on Broadband; My E-mail Address Change

Published
by
Michael
on July 8, 2007
in Journal and Technology
. 0 Comments

After nearly eight years on dial-up, I am happy to announce that last Thursday I went online with a broadband connection. My broadband provider, MyChoice, is relatively new, having been in the area for maybe about one year. It is also a little expensive, about $50 per month (although, in return, I can drop my land line phone service, cancel by dial-up account, and reduce my cell phone minutes by using Skype, etc., so $50 isn’t too much of a hit). Other that satellite, MyChoice is the only means of getting broadband at home in my little town. Now I can finally enjoy at home many aspects of the Internet that were previously unavailable or impractical.

Many of my friends and family are already using my michaelprewitt.com email address. However, if you are using my older shawneelink.com address, please be aware that it will soon be discontinued, since it is tied to my dial-up account, which will soon be canceled. Email sent to that address will bounce, so please change to my michaelprewitt.com address now.

For reasons of privacy and avoiding spam, I can’t post my full email address here, but feel free to contact me if you need it.

Yahoo Mail is Evil

Published
by
Michael
on February 25, 2007
in Journal and Productivity
. 1 Comment

Today I noticed that someone had sent a message to my (old) Yahoo email address, and this prompted me to log in and check the status of it. I was shocked to see that Yahoo had both disabled my email account and deleted all messages, all without giving me so much as a hint that this would happen. I realize that Yahoo has the legal right to do this, but that does not mean it is any less rude and insulting. A simple courtesy email from Yahoo, stating that they are about to deactivate my account and erase all messages, would cost them nothing.

I have not been using Yahoo as a primary email account for years. However, I had given it out as a fall-back address for various online services. If you have my former Yahoo email address in your address book, please delete it and use my current michaelprewitt.com address only. If you don’t have that one, you can contact me through this website for details.

PS: I recommend the free address synchronizing service Plaxo. I have not had any problems with it (spam, etc.), and it has worked well for keeping my email addresses current with friends and family that use the same service. There are clients for both Windows and Mac OS X. (One caveat: The software offers to send sign-up invitations to all your contacts, which may annoy some of them. But you have complete control over the process, and sending the invitations is optional.)