And here's where it bit me.

Started a background check for new career just before the announcement. Used aggienetwork.com of course.

Now…. Delays while I miss correspondence and can't get the physical paperwork to change the @.

Insane they didn't allow some sort of forwarding for a period to mitigate issues like this.

AgsMyDude said:

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Insane they didn't allow some sort of forwarding for a period to mitigate issues like this.

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You had 3 months notice that this was going away

Filled out the paperwork in August.

Just got a call today that told me I used an invalid email address.

I'm sure they now think I'm competent enough to write software for them.

Charpie said:

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AgsMyDude said:

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Insane they didn't allow some sort of forwarding for a period to mitigate issues like this.

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You had 3 months notice that this was going away

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Doesn't mean lots won't be missed, but we don't know until months later.

Charpie said:

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AgsMyDude said:

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Insane they didn't allow some sort of forwarding for a period to mitigate issues like this.

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You had 3 months notice that this was going away

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Sure but there are tons of examples in this thread of people who knew it was coming and prepped but had a few things slip through the cracks. People are used this email for a long time.

Stuff just happens - I've had a .mac email since minutes after Steve Jobs announced iTools and was able to get my actual name. I couldn't even imagine how many things that's associated with. I'd be finding straggler accounts that had been missed for years after the fact.

Charpie said:

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Charpie said:

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AgsMyDude said:

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Insane they didn't allow some sort of forwarding for a period to mitigate issues like this.

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You had 3 months notice that this was going away

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Doesn't mean lots won't be missed, but we don't know until months later.

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I guess I just have all of my logins stored on my phone. It was easy to search for ...@aggienetwork.com and go update everything. If I missed something, it was something that couldn't have been that important to me because I didn't save it.

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A week before the end date, I remembered that access for my three state medical licenses were all online, with two giving renewal reminders and instructions only through my email. Luckily I was able to get that sorted while I could, as there's no way to change it except using the original. Still waiting on the California email and login change, but at least they have a heads up. Got lucky it randomly occurred to me, as all the renewals are during the summer, so I could have been screwed.

So no, some critical **** is being missed by many of us. We just don't know all of it yet.

Charpie said:

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That sucks.

Email forwarding would have been really nice

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And warranted since this was promised as a forever thing. I get it that things can change but they handled this about the worst way possible.

Or at least the option to pay for it.

part of the issue is that them google takeout process is pretty ****ing clunky too.