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When I lost my university email, my identity as scientist took an unexpected hit

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by pavel_lishin

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When I was attending university, we went to an orientation where one of the things they kept hammering into us was that we should start using the university-provided email as our "professional" point of contact.
Then someone asked whether we'd be able to keep our emails after graduation, and the presenter hemmed and hawed and it became very clear that we should not, in fact, be doing that.
I don't even remember if I have an alumni email account; I think I tried to snag something like janitor@alumni.university.email, but I don't even remember where I'd go to check.

by OgsyedIE

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There's a niche for an email management company catering to this need for giving reliability to academic identities here, I reckon. The TAM is very big with the current economic shifts in academia.
Does anything already do it, or is it a market left on the table?