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Hello Google Talk and Jabber types

Posted on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 10:11am. #

If you connect to me on Google Talk, Jabber, or iChat – please note that my old @gmail.com address is deprecated for chatting over IM.

I’m now the eminently sensible (myfirstname) @ cridland.net, whether you’re using GTalk or MSN. Please do add me.

Further, http://james.cridland.net/contacting_me/ contains all my details, including Twitter (which I’m really very much back into these days).

(If you try sending me email to @gmail.com I’ll still get it, but you might get some moaning auto-reply at some point telling you to change over.)

Photo: Hajime Nakano. Used under licence

2 comments

Martin
commenting at February 5th, 2008 at 4:16pm

Out of interest, what does this mean for your mail archive in your gmail account?
I’ve got 1.6GB of mail that I’ve accumulated over the past few years – and while I definitely don’t need the majority of the stuff there, it’s very handy being able to quickly track down items that I do want – from pretty much anywhere. And it’s the kind of thing that would dissuade me from changing providers.

Damn clever move, Google…

James Cridland
commenting at February 5th, 2008 at 5:53pm

The premium edition (which I had for three days until Google cancelled it, but that’s for a separate whinge) comes with a ‘mail migration’ setting, which allows you to pull the lot from Gmail over to your new service. My 2 meg took about a day to pull over, but it’s all at Google’s end.

I guess you could, for this, get the premium edition for 10 days, migrate your mail over, and then cancel the 30-day free trial.

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