Subject: Job Application
From: pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.com
Subject: Job Application
From: pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.com
Unfortunately, my first email address was @geocities.com.
Godspeed, you ugly collection of websites.
I still have and use an email I created in 1995.
The first part of my email has remained unchanged since about then. I've gone through various services though. AOL, Earthlink, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and now Proton.
I also have a first.last@gmail address I keep for anything more formal (resume).
Last year my email address - initialslastname@gmail.com - was added to the group list for a bunch of old ladies in England. First I was advised of my spot on the flower roster for the church, then I got someone's holiday photos, a reminder that Gerald's birthday was on the 9th, a lovely eCard congratulating me on my wedding anniversary... on and on.
I tried deleting them but they kept coming, and I worried about all the cool stuff initialslastname was missing out on. I sent an email to the whole group saying stop it & got a heartfelt apology and promises to correct it, but the emails have kept on coming - they all have me in their address books now. If I wasn't so lazy it would be a good incentive to move fully to my proton address.
Tmy name is just common enough to never be available anywhere, until Outlook.com addresses were new. Got firstlast@outlook magically. Really just one guy in Australia though it seems that doesn't realize he's not getting any of those emails. I figure that his actual email is probably something like first.last@outlook and he misses the dot sometimes.
I have an uncommon but not unique name and I have firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I know, others with my name usually include a middle initial in their email address but they sometimes forget it. I've gotten family event plans, car maintenance reminders, digital receipts, contractor quotes, and even once added to a daycare group (that one I did reach out to the coordinator to let them know and then removed myself from the group).
99' yahoo account? Pretty much been my spam account since I got a Gmail in 04'
Fun facts, I own a domain name and created a new email address.
I'm currently considering making it my main email address.
Also a good reason to leave outlook and gmail.
Note that if you let your domain lapse and someone else registers it afterwards, that person will also gain control over your e-mail address (and likely all accounts associated with it, if they are not secured with an additional factor of authentication / recovery).
Wow, are you serious? That's crazy!
What if I delete everything if I ever let my domain lapse?
In the same time, it is the name of my company, I assume I will keep it forever until I die.
As long as you're very thorough about removing any linked connection from your expired e-mail, you should be OK. That includes all accounts that you registered using this e-mail, as well as all e-mail contacts that you've built up using that account.
Last I tried that was over 20 years ago, and I was getting bombed with 13,000 spam emails an hour.
Though I'd imagine privately-hosted spam filtering has gotten much better since then.
That's a good idea because then you can always change your mail provider without changing your email address on all websites
I used to work for a retail company that signed people up for preferred customer accounts, and there are largely 2 kinds of emails: Robert.Layfield@gmall.com and BigMon3yT_Bone69@hotmall.com
It is possible and even good to change your email. I wrote an email service called Port87, and changed my email twice during the process. It really sucks how much work it is, but it’s worth it. Every email service that’s been around for decades just sucks. They survive on the fact that it’s hard to change your email.
@hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, my own host, @gmail.com, @protonmail.com. Seems like I make a new one every decade or so.
Me using my Xbox 360 username for life. I can't simply bring myself to change it now.
My email is only 30 years old because it was initially created solely to keep my everquest guild data handy
I still use my old email but it’s been relegated to “email that goes in websites I don’t trust”
No, that one still gets all the spam. Was in some breaches. I use it for sketchy sites.
I have 5 emails, the most used and first being made when i was 7 or 8 and contains my real name
Use email aliasing service or custom domain and get a different email address for each account/website
I got a Gmail when it came out back when Hotmail was 10MB and gmail had a size that you could see grow on top. It is just my name shortened.
I bought a domain. Then I went about making a new mail for each site I registered at. That way when I start getting spam to that address I know it's been leaked and I just kill it.
Most or all e-mail services allow you to create e-mail aliases, which are alternate e-mail addresses that deliver to the same mailbox and use the same login.
I love it when coworkers or clients in my job accidentally use their personal emails, they always have stupid names and after knowing someone only professionally it really throws me through a loop in a good way lol
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