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pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.comCan you start
on Mondaytonight 😏
Unfortunately, my first email address was @geocities.com.
Godspeed, you ugly collection of websites.
Mine is @aol.com and I’m afraid I’m gonna have to change emails for every single service I’ve ever used one day 🫠
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).
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Last year my email address - [email protected] - 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.
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.
Yeah, i get it.
An email address is a very important tool that is the root of anything online.
If you start using an email address, everything else becomes attached to it.
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 good to know.
Maybe try domain name privacy.
My email is only 30 years old because it was initially created solely to keep my everquest guild data handy
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.
Almost exactly the same, except my proton is @proton.me.
And I’ve have my Hotmail since a year or two after it started, so almost 30 years.
Roadkill4diner, used for years until I needed to be more professional
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.
This is the way.
I thought of doing something like that. I bought my original ISP’s domain and use my second ever email from time to time. My first email address was a old numeric compuserve email address.
I’ve been using the same email address since I was 14
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
Wait what do you mean you created a new mail, is that allowed?
No, the Internet people are coming for them right now.
I made one for both my kids that now I think is silly and I wonder if they’ll ever change it.
My mum also made one for me when i was a kid, I never did change it even like 15 years later.
I did the same thing for my step-kids. firstlast@gmail
That’s an excellent idea!
