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Choose Your User Name
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Selecting a User Name

3. You will need to choose a user name (6-30 *characters).  The user name will become a part of your e-mail address. Remember your user name!

  • Choose your user name wisely so that you can use it at various web sites. Millions of people have already signed up for user names, so your first choice may not be available.  Be prepared to add a number (like year of birth, graduation, etc) to your user name
  • Make it something that you will remember, and can use for years to come.
  • It should  NOT include your last name (unless you plan on using this e-mail account solely for business purposes), but using your first name is ok.
  • Try to create a User Names between 6 and 20 characters.  Characters include all numbers, letters (UPPER and lower case). You can not use a space. Since many web sites will not allow special characters (_, ^, @ for example) in a user name, avoid them so that you can use the same user name in most of your web site services. It is suggested that you always use lower case letters in  your user names since it  can be CaSe SEnsITive (capitalization matters)
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