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Email Forwarding Service:
Just
like your phone service or long distance service, you may occasionally
want to switch your Internet service provider. When you do, your email
address changes.
Let's say that you are now
using AOL and your address is johndoe@aol.com
. Then you change service providers to prodigy. If you are lucky, you
might be able to get the same name (johndoe) for this new account.
But the new address will now be johndoe@prodigy.com.
Now you have to go to all of your friends and family and inform them that
your address has changed. This gets to be a real pain. Also, as time goes
by, sites that you have registered at will no longer recognize your email
address. You will then have to re-register a new account or username. It
is a huge hassle.
One possible answer
to this dilemma is to use a forwarding service. I personally use
bigfoot.com. It is a free service without ad pages (at least at the time
of this article it was free and without ads). You simply log on and set up
an account. You choose a bigfoot address and enter the address you want
all of your mail sent to. That is it.
Now, when friends
send an email to your bigfoot address johndoe@bigfoot.com,
it will automatically be redirected or forwarded to your new prodigy email
address. The sender never knows. And next month if you change service
providers to yet another company, say... MSN, and your new email address
is now johndoe@msn.com.
You simply go to bigfoot.com and log in with your username (bigfoot email
address) and password and set the account to forward to johndoe@msn.com.
This way, your email
address will never have to change. It will always be the same regardless
of what service provider you are using. I use this method and it has
worked extremely well for me. I have changed providers twice recently and
bigfoot was a huge asset in continuing to receive my email. Try it out for
yourself. Go here to check it out.
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