Junk: {firstName}{lastName}@gmail.com
Real alias: {firstName}{lastName}@pm.me
Real: {randomAlphanumeric}@protonmail.ch
Subject: Job Application
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pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.comUnfortunately, my first email address was @geocities.com.
Godspeed, you ugly collection of websites.
Same. deepshitjunkie@geocities.com to be precise.
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).
Bet you get a ton of email intended for other people?
"what is this 'email address' it's asking for"
"dunno, just write your name and then @aol.com"
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.
99' yahoo account? Pretty much been my spam account since I got a Gmail in 04'
Lol, same. Although my Gmail is starting to become kindo of spammy now & I might have to cut my losses again.
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).
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.
Use Fastmail with your own domain. You're a glutton for punishment if you try to run your own email server.
That's good to know.
Maybe try domain name privacy.
With your own domain you also can also make up email addresses on the fly anytime.
Do you mean temporary/disposable addresses?
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.
Yeah the hardest part is going around and updating your address with sites you use.
Every time I've done it, I've also put an auto forward on my old address, and a label or other alert for anything that comes through from the old so I can go update it or block that address from auto forwarding.
@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.
My email is only 30 years old because it was initially created solely to keep my everquest guild data handy
Me using my Xbox 360 username for life. I can't simply bring myself to change it now.
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 lost my original one, because I didn't know shit about secure passwords, and never bothered to try to have it recovered.
I've been using the same email address since I was 14
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 still use my first email address.
It gets flooded with spam, so I use those scam emails as my database of real scammer numbers to call, then I fire up my VM and fuck with them
Roadkill4diner, used for years until I needed to be more professional
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.
XxUnProxX6969420@gmail.com, gotcha!
I remember watching that number tick up.
I got Gmail on an invite.
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 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.
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.
This is the way.
This cat is using a computer.
Your argument is invalid.
Tomorrow is my turn to post this meme
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!
Everyday I am thankful that my parents chose my email for me as a kid.
my parents chose my email too, then i went ahead and made a new and used that
I at least had the advantage of just being able to use my name.
You tried so hard, and got so far but...
