How often do you update your email records?

Anyone with a PC (especially windows based) usually has some kind of email facility. If not, you are not doing much on the internet. For those who have been using it for a long time (over a year), you have probably made a number of friends and contacts round about.

One of the most common things to affect your system (apart from infectious nasties) is that over time many of your friends change their email addresses (but sometimes they don't tell you). This only shows up after a period when you try to contact them, only to find them gone. Their mail is returned to you with some sort of "gone" message.

There are several ways to find out who has (since many change their phone numbers less often than their email addresses). What about phoning them (if possible)? If that doesn't work, what about posting a note to their street address? Ask around on line to see if anyone you know has a current address.

If these efforts work, fine. If not, you may just have to remove them from your list until they contact you again. So keep up to date, and let others know when you are changing your address!