It’s just not worth it, he says:

With rival free services providing gigabytes of e-mail storage for free, and companies offering Mac OS X SyncServices-compatible solutions for a one-time fee, there’s no reason to continue paying for the service.

As part of his address switch plan, he tells readers of his blog:

If you currently use my .Mac e-mail address to communicate with me, please take a few moments to update your address books. Send me an e-mail here and I can provide you my new addresses and vCard.

For one reason or another, everyone has to change email addresses at some point.

Nikolena at The Crafted Webmaster provides a neat checklist of six steps to make sure that the process goes smoothly.

She covers things like starting early, making a conscious list of all the places the address needs to be changed, announcing the new address and continuing to monitor the old one.

It’s all common sense, of course, but common sense often fails at the critical point. As Nikolena says,

A few weeks ago I decided to switch my personal email account from .Mac to Gmail. This would be about the third or fourth time since 1997 I’ve switched my personal email address. The first time I switched my email address was a huge pain in the butt. I had subscribed to a lot of newsletters and when I changed my email address, I lost about half of my subscriptions and missed a number of emails from friends and family. With each switch, I’ve gotten a lot better about going about it in an organized manner. If you need to change emails sometime in the future, learn from my mistakes by following these tips.

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