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Step 1.
Select an email address
Most HPAA services, including the job posts, are provided via email.
To ensure a reliable email path, you join the HPAA by email.
Sign on to your
personal email.
Please do not join from an email account at your employer.
If you are in transition, you will want to receive HPAA career and job information continuously during your
transition. We do not accept applications from HP email addresses.
Even if you do not expect to be
leaving your current employer, there are
many
reasons why your personal email – including job posts and career discussions – should go to a private account.
(You can
send the URL for this page – www.hpalumni.org/join – via email to your
personal account
and apply later from there.)
If you do not already have a personal email account, you can
get a free one in
a few minutes. These accounts are accessible from any computer at work, home, or
library using a browser. Some leading free email services include
Yahoo Mail,
Microsoft Hotmail, and
Google Gmail. Yahoo and
Hotmail accounts can be upgraded at low cost to remove the advertising.
Join using a reliable email address
– not one
that intermittently
discards bulk emails as spam
without your knowledge.
For every one of these recurring
cycles, you
and HPAA volunteers
have to take special action to reactivate your HPAA membership.
Please don't apply using
one of these unreliable types of email account:
An email account that you don't check regularly. If the email fills
up, your email provider will automatically complain to Yahoo – and Yahoo's system will
automatically close your HPAA membership -
An email that sends
challenge emails in response to incoming emails. Yahoo's system will automatically close your
HPAA membership.
Details
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Certain email providers:
@bigfoot.com @rediffmail.com
Corporate email systems: for example @hp.com
@cisco.com -
Email forwarding services.
Many forwarding services are discarding emails – not just from HPAA, but truly
important emails from other senders. Some examples: @.name @cornell.edu
@alum.mit.edu @computer.org @ieee.org @arrl.org
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