From: touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 15 August 2024 16:19 On Aug 15, 2024, at 8:27 AM, Chris Inacio <inacio@xxxxxxxx> wrote: CMU has `@alumni.cmu.edu` and will allow forwarding (but not an actual account) to keep an address in place. As conservative as CMU is about legal stuff like this, I think it’s doable from a risk point of view. Like I said though, it’s *only* a forwarding address that CMU will provide, but that’s often enough. FWIW, one reason most alumni addresses are forwarding-only is that other orgs, like Apple and HP, offer educational discounts, but you need to send FROM a .edu address to qualify. There are other orgs that offer email addresses that are permanent and allow use as a “from” address, but - like working at Harvard - they’re only good until they’re not as well. There’s no such thing as truly “permanent”. Even buying a domain isn’t a guarantee AFAICT (I recall cases where domains were owned then “pulled back” for various reasons, including legal action). <tp> yes, that has happened to me. I was told that I no longer had any rights in a domain name, no reason given. In passing, I do not think it is possible, at least with the registrars I know of, to buy a domain in any legal sense of that word. I can pay money to have rights to use the name in certain contexts but I can lose those rights as and when the registrars decide to take them away. In other contexts, such as with land, rights are a happy hunting ground for lawyers with all sorts of different rights with different conditions attached leading to all sorts of court cases.. Tom Petch Joe
