In my last year, they were transitioning between their own custom solution and moving to a Gmail-hosted service for their staff and students. In their older system, I have both my "official" full name @asu.edu, but also the alias "joshus," for my own amusement. Those names persisted across the changeover, but there was no mention that I would retain any ASU addresses, no less the b.s. aliases I set up for myself.

Some years later, having to retrieve my transcripts, I came back to see my accounts had been thoroughly disabled and the support girl I talked to had never seen an account like mine before. Afraid I'd lose them, I didn't mention the aliases, but I'm pretty sure that on some poor, retired Unix server, a mail configuration file, untouched and unloved and ignored by the scripts that used to carefully edit it to the whims of its capricious users, still has a line with my name. And an arrow, to another name. Joshus.