The End of an Era

[ladysprite]

It's finally happened. After ten years of having the same email address, hotblack is finally going away. I'm not quite sure how to handle this.

I know people tend to change addresses fairly frequently, but I never have. I settled into this account when I was still an undergrad, and I've been there ever since. I have messages saved here from before my sweetie and I started dating eight years ago, and probably chronicling the majority of our relationship. I have the security of knowing that friends who haven't seen me since 1995 still know where and how to get in touch with me. And now it's going.

I suppose this is good practice for changing my name next fall - I know it's harmless, but I feel like I'm losing a piece of my identity. Anyway, I'm going to put the new address in a friends-locked entry after this; if you can't see it and still want the new contact info, reply here and I'll pass it on....

Comments

[dalbino83.livejournal.com]

I hated giving up my old email address when the domain was sold to a new owner and the new owner just wanted to kill the old domain name. Like you, I had it for 10 years. They did offer email forwarding for a while (like, 2 years), and by the end of those two years all I was getting at the old address was spam. I hope you'll get forwarding.

But I really hated going to all the websites I had registered at, and changing my account info; good luck with all that!