# Changing E-Mail Address On Google Groups

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-e-mail-address-on-google-groups/187419>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 10, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-e-mail-address-on-google-groups/187419 "2003-07-10T06:47:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-e-mail-address-on-google-groups/187419/1 "2003-07-10T06:47:11Z")

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The one that is attached to my GOOGLE account is no longer vaild because the site closed down their free e-mail service ([soccer.com](http://soccer.com)), so I went to GOOGLE yesterday to try to change it and I guess there isn’t a way to do that unless you open a new account, but I wanted to keep the **Quasimodem** name if possible.

Have any of y’all ever changed your e-mail address on Google, and how did you do it?

Thanks

Q

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-e-mail-address-on-google-groups/187419/2 "2003-07-10T06:50:42Z")

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[http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=214000](http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=214000)

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-e-mail-address-on-google-groups/187419/3 "2003-07-10T07:37:32Z")

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Yeah, I saw that post, but it has to do with GOOGLE **Answers** (the service where you ask a question and pay the person who’s the expert in a particular field to answer you - SDMB is much better for that and doesn’t cost a thing!:D).

Thanks

Q

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**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-e-mail-address-on-google-groups/187419/4 "2003-07-10T14:53:23Z")

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I’m in the same process … I just logged in with my old email addy and login (by selecting an article to respond to) and then hit the “my account” link. It led me to a link to change my email addy (which I have not yet).

It _should_ work.

Oh, I didn’t “sign up” for google groups with this name/password, but signed up for google answers with it … though I have different aliases at each, the login/pw is the same, so the referenced article (I didn’t follow the link) might be correct.

I might just break free of the “aol of usenet” and actually use Usenet instead of google groups … don’t want one group to ‘control’ everything but we’ll see.

Or I might stick with going to usenet via Google Groups just because it annoys my spouse so.

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-e-mail-address-on-google-groups/187419/5 "2003-07-10T18:06:05Z")

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It **did** work for me, **Mynn** , thanks!

I use GOOGLE when I post a question from work, and then use Newzbot to see the answer, because GOOGLE still has that 8-9 hour time lag.

Here at home I use Outlook Express and my usenet account is with [News.CIS.DFN.DE](http://News.CIS.DFN.DE), out of Germany.

Thanks

Q