<p>is it really true that if you're the only person at columbia with your name, you can change your email address to <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@columbia.edu">firstname.lastname@columbia.edu</a>? i'd much prefer that to my clunky uni, but alas, it doesn't seem to work for me.</p>
<p>You don't have to -- and can't -- do anything to change your email address if you're the only person with your name. You just tell people to use <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@columbia.edu">firstname.lastname@columbia.edu</a> and the server automatically sends the email to you at <a href="mailto:xyz2000@columbia.edu">xyz2000@columbia.edu</a>.</p>
<p>just tried it, doesn't seem to work</p>
<p>How do you know you're the only person wth your name? If it doesn't work, then you probably aren't. (Or, they could have removed the feature.)</p>
<p>I guess they removed the feature b/c my name is pretty obscure</p>
<p>Is your name that obscure -- you think nobody who has ever attended any of Columbia's ugrad/grad schools or worked at Columbia shares your name? That's a helluva lot of people.</p>
<p>as far as i know the feature still exists</p>
<p>I just tried it, and it didn't work.</p>
<p>I think the feature has been disabled. My dad works for CUIT, and he's fairly certain that they got rid of it some time ago.</p>