Can I Change My E-mail Address on a List? You're searching through the mailing list archives and find some of your old posts with an outdated e-mail address. Can you change it? After reading Joan Young's article last week on searching the mailing list archive, many people did just this. Joan and I have received this question from many users. The answer? No. The list archives simply preserve what was posted on any given day. If you want to update an e-mail address, the best way is to make a new post to the list and provide your current e-mail address. You may also wish to include the surnames you made posts about, so that someone searching for that surname will see both your old and new addresses. But what about message boards? Some outdated e-mail addresses on old message board posts can be updated by virtue of My Account. Since My Account was introduced to the site last spring, users are required to sign in before making a post on a message board. My Account associates a username and an e-mail address; to update an e-mail address on an old post all you have to do is change it in My Account and any posts associated with the username will automatically be updated with the new e-mail address. What about messages created before My Account? These will be updated as well, so long as you were a registered user and logged in before making your old posts. If you were registered but did not log in to post, or were an unregistered user, there is no way for your old posts to be identified and updated.