# Changing your e-mail address

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-your-e-mail-address/49204>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 9, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-your-e-mail-address/49204 "2001-01-09T20:12:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-your-e-mail-address/49204/1 "2001-01-09T20:12:05Z")

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If you change your e-mail address is there a confirmation required before you can post again?

P.S. this is my 100th post 🙂

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-your-e-mail-address/49204/2 "2001-01-09T20:23:01Z")

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Hey, your numbers match! 2000 and 100! 🆒

You’re talking about changing your e-mail address in your Profile? AFAIK, there’s no problem with that, nor is any confirmation required. Change away.

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**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-your-e-mail-address/49204/3 "2001-01-09T20:30:13Z")

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Yeah cool 😃

Recently you must have had 2000 and 2000 posts!

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-your-e-mail-address/49204/4 "2001-01-09T23:16:20Z")

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I would add the recommendation that you should only use e-mail addresses that are current and valid and that you check frequently (or at least that you check frequently while you’re a poster at the SDMB).

If a moderator or administrator e-mails you with a question or concern, and you don’t answer the e-mail, the board staff member may be inclined to take some actions that could have been prevented by an explanation that you would have given via e-mail.

For example, if I see a post in “Comments on Cecil’s Columns” that doesn’t seem to relate to a Straight Dope column, I might e-mail the poster to say “to which column are you referring?” If they don’t answer back, I would probably move it. If they e-mail me with the mention of the column to which the post refers, I wouldn’t move the thread.  
(edited to fix link)

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[Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 01-09-2001 at 05:20 PM]

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-your-e-mail-address/49204/5 "2001-01-13T16:18:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by IJGrieve \*  
> \*\*P.S. this is my 100th post 🙂 \*\*

Good for you. 😃