[21twelve]

Thanks and bump for later. I am also a lazy AOL user. I tried using comcast when I got on their internet service but couldn’t stand it.

Of course with your forwarding service people STILL would see my aol account and think I’m an idiot. Or worse - a liberal! But could still get the new email address out there but not worry if folks are still using the old one.

Thanks!

[zeugma]

Of course with your forwarding service people STILL would see my aol account and think I’m an idiot. Or worse - a liberal! But could still get the new email address out there but not worry if folks are still using the old one.

I think you might be confused about this. (or I'm confused about what you're saying) When you get a forwarded address (pobox or whoever), you'd start giving out something like 21twelve@pobox.com. You could actually configure it to forward the mail to your aol.com email address until you're sure you really want to keep it, but I'd go ahead and have it forwarded to whatever email address your ISP provides. Over time, you'd see less and less traffic to your AOL address, and could eventually just set up an autoresponder that basically bounced messages to your aol mail back to the sender with a message that your email address has changed (you can do that with a 'vacation' or 'out of office' message).

There are free services out there that will host email for you, but most of them will have some kind of 'cost' in terms of advertizing or something attached to your mail. One of the reasons I use pobox is because it's a pay service, and I'm hoping that it is more likely to be around 5 years from now than something that is 'free'.

Reading through the last few messages, I realize I sound like a sales guy, but I'm not!