Dear [unless you write software like that I am about to discuss] List Members:

Look! I have a shiny new E-mail address. The apartment complex where I live decided to change things -- new management -- and the local phone company shortly will no longer be able to deliver service here.

I have everything transferred over, and so far, so good for the most part.

Never mind that my new ISP's Webmail page will not let me sign in. Never mind that their Web page chops off some important parts of the page. (I usually just use POP anyway.) (I do not want to change my screen resolution as I like to be able to read what is on it without going all squinty.)

If you send E-mail to my old E-mail address, it will get to me, but this is no thanks to Telus support. The Telus support rep did not know how to do redirection of neither new E-mail, nor existing E-mail and would probably rather have hung up on me.

Telus's redirect feature operates on only one E-mail at a time. I had accumulated about 65 messages in the few days I have not been using E-mail. You can see what is coming, right? Telus's Webmail feature does allow selecting more than one message at a time, but this is not available for redirect and there is no message about this either. In addition, how one enters the target E-mail address seems to require use of both keyboard and mouse.

Please do not write software like this. I would regret your death. I would also regret you not dying.

Have a good weekend. Unless you write software like the above.

(Yes, I know. We have all had to do shortcuts, but general use software like Webmail should have a better (complete?) user interface.)

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko