Harvard U. Will Offer Lifetime E-Mail Accounts to Its Alumni

Harvard University will soon join some of its peers in offering permanent Web-based e-mail accounts to alumni. Harvard officials say the new Web-mail accounts will help the university stay in touch with graduates and will eliminate occasional problems it has had with its current e-mail-forwarding service for alumni.

Since 1998, alumni have been able to sign up for an account called "@post.harvard.edu" from which Harvard forwards messages to their personal e-mail box, such as an address

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