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And You Thought You Had E-mail Problems
By Adam Nagourney
For anyone who works for a company that is plagued by e-mail troubles, feel a little sympathy for the members of incoming Obama administration. Tomorrow, they are going to be forced to change their e-mail not once, but twice. That means that they will have had four e-mail addresses over the past four months.

“Because the Presidential Transition office will be closing before our press department has access to e-mail addresses in the White House, we ask for your patience as there will be a period of time tomorrow when it will be a bit more difficult to receive information and to contact us,” Mr. Obama’s transition press office announced tonight. “To that end, we have created interim e-mail addresses where you will be able to email us, which can be found below.”

O.K., so throughout the campaign, Mr. Obama’s got their e-mail through a barackobama.com domain. Next up, they were all assigned addresses at the presidential transition committee (@ptt.gov). Tomorrow at some point, presumably, they will get their prestigious White House address (@who.eop.gov).

But for a few hours on Inauguration Day, they will have to rely on – what else – Gmail, Google’s popular Web e-mail service.

The address pattern is [e-mail].

And yes, we just sent an e-mail out to [e-mail]. We’ll let you know what he says.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/and-you-thought-you-had-e-mail-problems/