Time for an inane question:
I'm getting a little sick of paying pobox.com $20 every year, but so many people have that address. I just renewed for another year and my New Year's resolution is going to be to move all humans to my gmail address. While it will be a pain to change all my accounts to gmail, I can do that. I just don't know the best way to get people to change.
Any thoughts on the best way to do this that would be the least annoying? At least with my contacts, mass emails don't seem to work as some people are still calling a phone number I haven't had for 5 years. My "reply-to" has been gmail for a long time, to little avail.
I was thinking of setting up an autoresponder that will send a form message to anyone that sends to pobox telling them that in the future they should send it to gmail. But that's pretty annoying. Then again, I really don't have that many friends. I could even do it by hand each time a pobox email arrives.
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Like old clothes, if you haven't worn them in a year, you can get rid of them. If people are still sending you mail on the old account, let them know. When your pobox.com address bounces, they'll figure it out. Like you said, you don't have a zillion people to inform.
With that said, this is just 1 reason to have a personal domain. Granted it may cost more than $20/yr -- depending on how you play the cheap domain transfer thingy -- but my email never changes. That is a bad thing too as over time spam tends to collect as your address sits out on the net longer.
However, since my mail eventually makes it to gmail and their awsome spam filters, not such a big deal as it was in the days of running a personal smtp server.
Go ahead a shut it down. Your friends will still love you ;)
Or get a personal domain if you like more bling in your address.
Yeah, but don't you love explaining to people that you work for the government?
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