A few years back, the German Post Office started offering a free email service, and they ran a big campaign to promote it as your free life-long email address and the last email address you will ever need. I believed them, and most people know me as planz@epost.de now. Well, it was recently discovered that the area of private web mail unfortunately did not prove to be a business model of sufficient synergy, and the service will be discontinued in February. All users are encouraged to move to Lycos Europe, but there is no way to keep the email address, not even as a forward-only account. I know that running an email service these days must be a lot of trouble, and that you cannot really complain about the loss of a service you did not pay for (on the other hand, they are also shutting down their paid accounts, and those users must be furious), but this is being done in very poor style.

Anyway, from now on, I am thiloplanz@web.de again.