Have you gotten your USMS alias email address?
I think mine is
ande (at) u s m s (dot) o r g
cool perk
drop by
www.usms.org/.../aliasrequest.php
USMS.org E-Mail Alias Request
E-Mail Aliases in the usms.org domain are available for free to all registered USMS members. Please fill out the form below and click on the Submit Request button. You may request more than one alias by submitting multiple requests, but please don't go overboard with 10 requests. E-Mail addresses are not case sensitive, although you may choose to use mixed case in your E-Mail Reply-To field to make your address more readable (e.g. JoeSwimmer@usms.org). Please choose an alias that somehow identifies you (avoid swim@usms.org, swimmer@usms.org, coach@usms.org, etc. as these aliases could describe any one of our 42,000 members, although JoeSwimmerSwims@usms.org or CoachSwimmer@usms.org would be fine). All fields in the form must be filled in (including your current USMS registration number), and please indicate whether this is a request for a new alias or a request to change some information pertaining to an existing alias. Also, please indicate if you would like your alias to appear in our On Line Member Directory.
Rules for Aliases:
No spaces are allowed in an alias, and the only punctuation allowed are the underscore character or a period.
Examples of acceptable aliases:
JoeSwimmer@usms.org
Joe_Swimmer@usms.org
Joe.Swimmer@usms.org
JoeSwimmerSwims12@usms.org
123@usms.org
Examples of unacceptable aliases:
JoeSwimmer@NY@usms.org - @ character not allowed.
Joe Swimmer@usms.org - spaces not allowed.
this is a pretty cool perk - i agree, ande. i signed myself up about a year ago.
for those who aren't quite sure how it works, yes, it pretty much forwards the emails. if you have an email address that may be a bit embarassing on resumes, applications, rather than getting a new one and telling all your friends to switch, you can have something more professional - at usms.org.
For example, Bill Clinton is applying for RNC Chairman. He's been using elephants_suck@democrat.org since the 80's when Al Gore invented the internet. But since he's a USMS member, he signs up for the alias William.Clinton@usms.org, which looks a lot less hostile on his RNC app.
Most email programs and online email services will allow you to set up your email so that your alias is the only address recipients will see.
