Hayes family of Pretoria

1. Main: - use this address for your address book. It is the one least likely to change.

2. Secondary: This is a forwarding address, and will forward up to 24 messages a day. But sometimes spammers send more than 24 messages a day, and so real mail can get delayed or lost. It is therefore better to use the other address above, as the Bigfoot one is unreliable

3. Gmail:

The first two are forwarding addresses, so they should remain valid even if we have to change our direct addresses. If messages sent to either of those addresses bounce, please forward a copy of the bounced message to the Gmail address.

Forwarding addresses are useful, because it means if you move or if your change your ISP, your e-mail address remains the same. You too can get your own e-mail forwarding address for free:

Someone asked me the other day how many e-mail addresses I have, and I couldn't honestly say. There was a time that every time you sent a message from a BBS that had a link to the internet, that address got put in someone's directory. So you could end up with all sorts of e-mail addresses you didn't even know you had. More recently, just about every third web page you read wants you to sign up for a "free e-mail address" before they let you read the thing. So you end up having to think of an original password on the spur of the moment, when you weren't expecting to have to remember a password - and as a result of that, you forget it two days later.

I have a Yahoo! address as well, but they have "improved" it so much that it has become impossible to use, and in any case 99,9% of the mail that gets to it is spam, so I prefer not to use it. I have a Hotmail address too, but 99,999999% of the time it doesn't work, so I never use it.

If you really want to know them, or the ones I remember, you can always ask me.

If you came to this page because you were looking for an old friend, or a relative, and thought one of us might be the one you were looking for, perhaps you should also consider the possibility that someone who knew you a long time ago might be looking for you ...

Another good place for keeping contact information up to date and not losing touch with your friends is Plaxo.

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