OK, serious question: How does one change their AOL email to Gmail and let everyone know??? I want to do it (I think) but between family, friends, tons of businesses I do business with, all of my doctors, insurance's, credit cards ECT ECT it would take a massive effort to notify everyone. Is there an "easy solution?"
I guess I never thought about doing it after all of these years because I never had any issues with AOL but the other day I called to place an order for something and the girl laughed when I gave her my AOL email, when I asked her how to change it and let everyone know about the change.... Crickets.
If it ain't broke, why fix it.?

Could you just set your AOL to forward to the Gmail, and start using the Gmail with everything else moving forward (and update as you go along)?

This is the way. Update whatever you can remember, and in the meantime just forward all of your AOL mail to the new gmail account. You will inevitably find other businesses or accounts that need updating and just take care of them as they come up.

Yeah, just have the email account auto forward everything to another account

You can even add another email auto-forwarding layer and really insulate your personal account from bullshit. And if you turn off download external images and such, you can't be tracked for having seen an email or not (a really slick way spam email can verify you're seeing the spam is to embed a 1px image that is linked on their server. They can see if the image is ever opened and from what IP)

That was me, 100% . Sure it was conjecture and it was solely based on what we have all seen go down over the last 7000 plus posts. I am pretty sure I explained all of that as such.

And once again we are right back to the conspiracy theories that the "fanboys" are out to get him. Who are these fanboys?

It's just another detour, another it's not my fault, delays happen and it's all part of the plan. Another kick of the can down the road.

So now we continue with the beer counts, food hunts, and bus rides until the next speed bump/detour/we have to wait comes along.

I am excited. What can top taking a hammer to the very device than contains all of one's important information?

To be fair, that conspiracy exists because you posited that Jon asked for his name to be removed from the thread, which John took to mean the Trashaholics were bothering Jon

I don't think anyone is publicly bothering Jon at least...

Now back to the action. Maybe we can get a few star posts screwed down this week?

I was openly very critical about anyone who would be associated with this project. I named some people, it was good for a three day thread eject!

Yes Jon Norris never mentioned to me he was bothered by anything here. Except maybe the people that have left & were making shit up about retired designers or artists being what ever. I tried many times to gain access to my Hotmail & Outlook accounts. No big deal & I do not have to search through all the crap.

Forward all of your mail to the new account.

Use the signature feature of your email and add a signature that states you have a new address and list it there.

Now each time you respond to a new email address, your signature will tell people what happened.

Its not only very easy to recover your accounts, a simple google search will net you several step by step instructional videos. And in the long run it will make your life easier, better and will save you from inconveniencing others like Jon Norris.

Instead of learning something new and better, your default seems to be hammer time, which I find telling.

No skin off my nose, you do you.

I still use AOL for my personal email, never had a problem with it and it's free like most email. Who cares what people think or if people laugh.
For me it's usually just a fun conversation not embarrassing or anything. I do use gmail also but most of my freinds and accounts go to my aol.
Oh well I guess I'm a throwback!

The email is free because the company reads all your emails. It's why I try to avoid Google products. I don't need to give a leg up to the world's largest advertising company....

I'm not saying Apple is amazing, but I'm a huge fan of how they built disposable emails into iCloud. Whenever a website asks for your email, iOS can offer to make up a free email and auto forward it to your real account. It's a different fake email for every website. And you can turn off those fake email accounts whenever you want on an individual basis. Bonus: you can see which companies are selling your email address because you know exactly which website you gave the phoney email to.

I unironically wear my hair in a manbun fairly often. Get a lot of comments from the peanut gallery. The funny part is that I really don't blame anyone for doing it lol. Maybe I'll forget to put my hat on when I'm at expo just so I can hear a couple more jokes at my expense My favorite is when bald/ing dudes wanna bash my stupid hair, I think they are just jealous of my luscious locks

PS- nothing personal guys, if you still use a hotmail account or something.

Microsoft. It's obvious to anyone following the breadcrumbs that Microsoft got wind of the build and decided they didn't want their email client to be part of it, so John got put on their blacklist.

Hey we are all old enough now that we don't really care what others think or say.........BOOMER!.......(says the guy north of 50...)

Cheers,

Quoted for posterity.

Looking forward to the next set of delay excuses arriving in November!

And possibly another set of holes drilled into the wood paneling!

Exciting times!

Thread got derailed again. Can't we get back to marked down food and beer drinking?!

nothing much is happening on the build so.......c'mon GWJ we are all rooting for you even if we think the odds are not great....

I don't really have any issue with the Manbun, just talking to hear myself type!
And I stopped worrying what people think a long time ago. It helps that I don't have any flaws though...

Sorry fellas, editing mistake.

get a free password manager and you only have to remember 1 password
www.LastPass.com

I've had my same AOL personal email account since 1993 when I was 12/13 years old. Im gen x/millennial it works great i don't need to stop using it.

That's one too many

Password......."Hammer"

Got back from my local bar after 4 happy hour Keiths beer. Played the jukebox that had 9 credits on it from last night. No gambling nickel bets, likely give it up since I never win. Invest in beer drinking. I was tempted to buy the ham picnic meal, but I went with other options. Here is my supper of 2 hot dogs, Gottlieb system 1 heads for storage until the Friday night social guy picks up his games. Drink his beer in exchange for storage. No I never use Hammer as a password, but there might be a bread crumb there, or not.

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I gotta ask since I am so curious--what songs did you play?

Slow Ride-Foghat

For my sanity, I'm just going to assume that's lead free solder on your workbench where you do your pin fixin and pork cookin

Frank Sinatra: I did it "My Way"

I have to ask, do you ever eat with your wife? It seems like you do a lot of things separately.

Of course it isn't lead free.

Nor do they seem to drink together.

I always thought the family that drinks together stays together. Time to throw that notion in the trash.

Yes, I did infer that. BUT, the OP came and set the record straight.

However, it still wouldn't shock me.

Good man!

No, it's you live in Rockford and you have a man bun. Just as long as you are not hanging out at the Office there downtown.......

He said he's giving up NICKLE bets, not necessarily betting. He's stepping up to quarter bets!

I would advise John if he hasn’t already, to avoid buying Bitcoin. At least if he forgets his bancard ATM pin he can still get access to his savings account. I’m sorta worried that with all the smashing of hard drives going on that any prior alt coin fortune got lost at the dump, thrown out with the discount food containers by accident.

Here is the answer, take over this Stargate prototype build especially since it was a Norris game, he could know more about this whitewood!

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-sale-stargate-prototype-whitewood-game

I can assure you that is NOT part of the plan.

But it’s almost done, this could save months off the build time or not! Oh better yet, this could be the foundation for the $100k build!!!

Looking at the pics of the stargate prototype wiring, I was amazed at the complexity. How is GWJ who is unable to recover his email from hotmail going to be able to wire a brand new game ? Good luck mate, you may as well be trying to put a man on mars.

Cheers,