# Keeping a Valid Email: What If...

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**Created:** [April 29, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-a-valid-email-what-if/242586 "2004-04-29T00:31:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-a-valid-email-what-if/242586/1 "2004-04-29T00:31:22Z")

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What if my email has changed since I first subscribed, and then one day I need you to email me my password because, well, my gray matter has died and fallen out one ear only to be vacuumed up and/or captured by the electrostatic field across the TV screen?

But seriously, folks…what if? Am I screwed, too? Or, in my request to email me my password submit a new email address…but, that wouldn’t be too kosher, would it? How do you know it’s really me? Well, only I could do such a dumb thing, for starters! 😉

- Jinx