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Howdy fellas (and ladies!)...
My family just upgraded to DSL (whee! ::-)), so I have a new e-mail address and new AIM screen name. My MSN and Yahoo names will remain the same.
E-mail address: paintmeyellow@comcast.net
AIM screen name: paint me yellow4
See ya around! 
-Tom 
"Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know,
whatever is neglected slips away."
Oedipus Rex, lines 126-127
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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why a new AIM name? That makes zero sense
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Because I had AOL before this, not AIM. Once we unsuscribe from AOL, my former screen name will become no more, and I will have to use AIM, thus a new screen name.
-Tom
"Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know,
whatever is neglected slips away."
Oedipus Rex, lines 126-127
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that happened to me, too, with AOL. my SN(s) stuck around for a few weeks, but they're gone now. this means that the names i had for role-play/writing purposes i suddenly can't use on AIM, where i could before, so i had to make all new ones. so sad, i had them forever!
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Guest
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... but, you must do it quickly befor the AOL Server is updated.
Simply go to http://www.netscape.com/
Click the [MAIL] "link" at top left centre under the banner, and "sign-in using your AOL "Screen-name", and password.
This will activate a reserved e-Mail account that has been held under your AOL Screen-name, in your case vis a vis "pricekid73@netscape.net".
You will have to answer a few basic questions, but when all is done you'll have a brand-spanking new "netscape.net" Web-mail account. Should you happen to be using the Mozilla (version 1.2, or higher), Netscape (version 6.22, or higher), Firebird (all versions), Thunderbird (all versions), K-Melon, LeGaleon, Skipstone or Chimera Browsers, you will be able to receive and send your e-mail from your netscape.net account (as you will be able to with all other Web-based e-mail acounts such as Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos and others - excepting Hotmail) without logging-in through the Browser at all, and without having to have "cookies" enabled to do it either.
Warren
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Gimme a holler some day okies? I haven't changed MY screen name, heh heh!
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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I accidentally gave the wrong e-mail address. It's paintmeyellow@verizon.net. Sorry guys.
-Tom
"Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know,
whatever is neglected slips away."
Oedipus Rex, lines 126-127
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Registered: March 2012
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... that I should have added:
Whilst timing in activating a "reserved" netscape.net e-Mail account is important if you are a current AOL-subscriber who is abandoning AOL in favour of an alternative service, ANY AIM-user once they have downloaded, installed and activated, the AIM-programme has a netscape.net e-Mail account reserved for them under their chosen [screen-name]. This account may be activated in precisely the same manner as described above, and I strongly urge all AIM-users to do so.
Aside from ease of use considerations should the AIM-user be using any the GRE-based Browser alternatives to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the 5 Mb Inbox (second in size only to Yahoo!'s 6 Mb Inbox granted to their original - mid-1990's - subscribers) should be reason enough to abandon hotmail.com for a "general purpose" Web-Mail account. This 5 Mb Inbox size has remained unchanged for nearly 10-years.
User Privacy and Confidentiality is rigorously adhered to, with no listing of e-Mail Addresses and User Information being made to any Directory Service unlike Microsoft's "Passport" and "Hotmail" which both automatically list each account with all of the major Search-engines and Directory Services.
Don't believe me - go to any Portal-site, whether MSN, Yahoo!, Excite, AltaVista, etc. and request an e-Mail Address Search from their "Directory Services" by typing in your own name. You may be surprised to find that you will be able to send yourself an e-Mail to your "Hotmail", or "Passport" Account - although admittedly the actual e-Mail Address is withheld, and hidden from view.
Similarly, if you have Excite, Lycos, or Yahoo! Accounts, you are well advised to use your "Hotmail" account for your e-Mail Address, or better still your Excite, Lycos, or Yahoo! address, as all three sell their Account information to their third-party supporters.
In nearly 10-years of using my netscape.net e-Mail Accounts I have never been spammed, nor seen the account listed anywhere where I have not volunteered it's presence. I cannot truthfully say the same for any of the others.
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