IEEE Personal Email Alias

The IEEE offers a personal e-mail Alias service in which IEEE members can register or instantly update a personal alias of their choice (subject to availability and on a "first-come, first-served" basis). Messages addressed to the alias@ieee.org will automatically be forwarded to the members real Internet e-mail address at their ISP. Over 100,000 members received more than 200 million messages using this service in 2003.

Free Virus Scanning

9,000,000 Virus-Infected Messages Detected in 2005!

The virus-scanning feature helps prevent you from receiving viruses in the first place. Attachments within e-mail sent to your IEEE alias will be scanned, and if a virus is found, the attachment will be be deleted. An alert is then sent to both the sender and recipient. While the IEEE cannot guarantee that every virus will be caught, the virus scanning software is updated daily. A service like this typically costs $20 to $30 per year, but as an IEEE member, it is yours FREE of charge.

Free Spam Tagging

Members have the option of adding a new feature to help IEEE members manage the amount of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), or spam, they receive. Members who elect to take advantage of this new service have the option of either tagging or blocking possible UCE. The service also now supports black and white listings.

This e-mail forwarding service is available to IEEE members to simplify the myriad number of constantly changing computer e-mail addresses.

You may choose your alias name, but are encouraged to use a construction of your family and given names whenever possible, to make it easier for people to contact you.

Advantages of a Personal IEEE E-Mail Alias:

* If you change your Internet Service Provider and hence your e-mail address, you only have to send one correction - an update to the IEEE.

* If you change your employer or your location within the company which results in a different e-mail address, you only have to send one update - to the IEEE.

* An e-mail address which is independent of your service provider or employer.

* Only one place to make changes to your e-mail address.

* IEEE aliases are usually easier to remember and simpler to use than the real address.

* An e-mail address which associates you with the IEEE.