Migrate expired mobileme email address to icloud alias

Hi,
I had a Mobileme family pack and at one point i was using a second email address.
Later I swapped it to use an address for someone else.
Now I would like to use that old address as an icloud alias but don't know how.
Any ideas?

Thanks for your reply.
I have also had a chat with apple support and discovered the same thing. If you had a family pack on mobileme and had used sub account @me email addresses and then reassigned them they are in effect held forever out of use too everyone for use with mail. They can however be used as an apple ID. Though I can't work out how despite the instructions below.
Q: I would like to reactivate a mobileme sub account that was not in use when I changed the main account to iCloud?
A: You can re-activate this account, ******@me.com, by signing into iCloud preferences with the username and password to this account. When you turn on mail for that account it will require that you create a new @me email address because this one is inactive and was not active when you set it up with iCloud.
Q: Does this mean i can never recover it?
A: You can use the email as an Apple Id you just have to use an new @me email address for mail.

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