e-mail address change

[kareina]

I just found out that the SCA has decided to eliminate the personal e-mail addresses that many of us have been using for years. I didn't find out because they sent me a message. I didn't find out because of an announcement via any SCA source. I found out because a friend of mine, who has also been using an SCA.org address for years sent me an e-mail to ask if I knew what was up with the SCA addresses being eliminated, so I checked the web page (see link) and saw a notice. This notice says that the addresses will cease to exist as of 31 October. This is barely more than two weeks away. If he hadn't have called my attention to it, I might not have heard from another source, and at the end of the month when they closed the account and things started bouncing who knows how long it would have taken me to notice? I am very grateful that he mentioned it, but wish that they had 1) given me notice themselves and 2) done so at least 30 days in advance of the change.

Heck, while I am wishing, I wish that when they first decided to offer these accounts as a "fund-raiser" that they had also made it possible for people to pay for subsequent years. I paid for the first year, and have tried on numerous occasions to pay for subsequent years, including writing letters to the BOD to ask how I can pay, and was told that it wasn't possible to pay again.

Oh well.

Since that address has been killed I have just set up a new address for myself, kareina (dot) sca (at) gmail (dot) com I would have gone with just "kareina" as the user name, but, alas, it was taken. Since the address I have been using for years was kareina@inthe.sca.org, I decided to go with a variation on that. I could have used my title, but didn't want to, and my SCA surname requires the two little dots over the final a to be spelled correctly, so I didn't want to use it. Besides, I think an e-mail address should be easy to spell. If you had my old address in your address book please update it. The new address, and my work address are listed on my facebook info page if you ever need it.

Comments

[kareina.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect that the problem all stems to the way it was set up in the first place. The idea was proposed as a "fund raiser", and the cost was advertised at some reasonable cost/year for the addresses. I paid for the first year, but when I went to pay again it turned out not to be possible. Therefore I've had more than a decade of e-mail for the first year's fee. Therefore these addresses are *not* raising funds. Even if it is only pennies a year that offering the addresses costs the organization, if we don't pay for them (because they won't let us), it falls into the "unnecessary expense" catagory. Personally, I'd have rather been given the option to go to a system wherin I payed to use the address, since that was part of the reason I got it in the first place. But they didn't consult me, and presumably didn't consult the others who had a personal sca.org address either.