Wait? Did you REALLY change it?<\/p>\n
Because you REALLY need to! No joke!<\/p>\n
Last week, Jim read in our local paper The Valley THANKS FOR THE UPDATE Chip.<\/p>\n And with that pronouncement, \u00a06,000 valley.net addresses were history.<\/p>\n It was On hearing this news, I got that glazed look that most technology glitches give me. To my adult children, who were sitting at the kitchen table relaxed and scrolling through Instagram, FB, texts and the internet simultaneously, my face \u00a0probably looked Behind that face lay a brain Green Hope Farm has had this email address for 25 years. \u00a0Everything we do loops through this email address. AND I MEAN EVERYTHING. \u00a0My list of things to sort out is several pages long. And growing.<\/p>\n Fortunately as I wrung my hands, Sarah and Will said, “NO PROBLEM!” \u00a0Mercifully Today for example, Sarah and Jen are getting the kinks out of the new email system.<\/p>\n allofus@greenhopeessences.com<\/p>\n But you know that, right? Because you changed it in your computer address book! Right?<\/p>\n I hope everyone has a team like I do\u00a0 Valley.net stopped giving out valley.net addresses 20 years ago, so that means the 6,000 of us TRUE CONFESSION- My son, webmaster Ben, suggested I make a change in email address years ago. \u00a0He was joined by a So back to the main point of this post- The old email will not work in a matter of days My great grandfather was an GP in Philadelphia and when he didn’t hear from a patient for awhile, he would tell other patients that the person was \u00a0dead, even when he or she was very much alive and kicking. IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM US in response to emailing the old email address, WE ARE NOT DEAD! As Chip would say, It’s progress.<\/p>\n PS Because spring is not busy enough on a farm, life now finds us crossing off our old email address on 10,000 postcards, \u00a0applying new email info to printed pamphlets and scrambling to change every online interface we have from our old email address to our new one. Before I go further, \u00a0PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE change … Continue reading A new email address!<\/span> Snooze<\/del> News that all valley.net addresses were going to be discontinued by a new company that just bought the server. He reported we had just days to jump ship, because people sending emails to all valley.net addresses were not even going to get a bounce back to tell them that the email didn’t exist anymore. \u00a0Some guy named Chip who had abandoned his valley.net address “years ago” to embrace gmail \u00a0was quoted as saying, “That’s progress.”<\/p>\nrude<\/del> strange that we read about the end of our email address in the paper. It seemed rude<\/del> bizarre there was \u00a0no notice from the company. \u00a0In fact, we still haven’t gotten ANY notice,\u00a0rude or otherwise,<\/del>\u00a0from the company.<\/p>\nlike one painted by Edvard Munch<\/del> pained.<\/p>\nspinning out of control<\/del> already brain-storming solutions. \u00a0I was immediately busy plotting solutions for this nightmare<\/del> conundrum. Too busy in fact to \u00a0fake technology serenity.<\/del><\/p>\nfor them<\/del> they did not say, “That’s progress.” Instead they said, “This happens every day. \u00a0We can fix everything.” and they ARE fixing everything except my attitude.<\/del><\/p>\nNot to beat a dead horse but<\/del>\u00a0We REALLY\u00a0need you to change us in your computer, because valley.net is kaput. This new company could give a hoot that valley.net, as an offshoot of Dartmouth’s blitz mail, was one of the first email communities ever. \u00a0They could give a hoot about the 6,000 people like me are who are trying to wrap their spinning<\/del> heads around life after valley.net.<\/p>\ntuning our their worried mother<\/del> holding my hand and telling me to CHILL. But I doubt it.<\/p>\ndinosaurs<\/del> customers, unlike Mr. That’s Progress<\/del> Chip, have been clinging to our valley.net addresses and resisting change for at least 20 years and\/or haven’t had an assertive<\/del> lively group of young people around them dragging them into the future<\/del> encouraging change as I have or as Chip clearly had.<\/del><\/p>\nGreek<\/del>\u00a0chorus of other siblings. \u00a0But I insisted I liked the bucolic sound of our obsolete<\/del> email address. \u00a0I regret my foot dragging. \u00a0There, I said it.\u00a0<\/del><\/p>\ndespite my Herculean efforts to stop the flow of time<\/del>– and if you send an email to that address, \u00a0IT WON’T BOUNCE BACK and tell you we didn’t get your mail \u00a0either.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2018\/06\/IMG_8941.jpg\")
<\/a>Is it ironic that technology can create problems only a human can fix, one cross off at a time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"