Dr. Mercola December 01 2007 34,850 views
By registering your email address with a free service, you can now keep it eternally ‘alive‘ so that others can contact you in the future, even if they don‘t know your new address.
Compared to phone numbers and standard mail, there’s no master directory of email addresses, and once you change addresses, your messages are not forwarded to your new location. Bethany Data is one of the first to provide an answer to this annoying problem with their new web site called www.FindMyNewMail.com.
Their free service is a great way to remove the hassle of moving ISP’s, changing jobs, moving to another country, or whatever might cause you to change your email address.
It’s also secure and private. They don’t give out your new email address; instead, the sender sends a message to your old email through the site, which is forwarded to your new address. You then have to actively respond to whoever contacts you.
In theory a great idea ... BUT ... everyone seems to be missing an important point! Unless they are planning to invest in alot of advertising to make it well known (unlikely for a free service), the success of this is dependent on someone going to the site looking for you, and the odds of that happening are slim to none!
Exactly what I was going to say. It's not likely any of your contacts are going to even know about this service to use it, unless you tell them all about it of course. But in that case, it's just as easy to simply send out an email to everyone on your list, announcing your new address when you move to a new one. That works just fine for me.