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.
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.
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.