Junk: {firstName}{lastName}@gmail.com
Real alias: {firstName}{lastName}@pm.me
Real: {randomAlphanumeric}@protonmail.ch
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The suggestions for email addresses if yours was already taken used to include what you entered plus the last two digits of your birth year. I wonder how many people born in 1988 followed that advice and now deeply regret it.
Pretty sure just yesterday I saw a Lemmy comment bemoaning that 88 had been co-opted for exactly this reason.
this was already a thing way before emails became a thing
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Can you start ~~on Monday~~ tonight 😏
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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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).
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.
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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.
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That's a good idea because then you can always change your mail provider without changing your email address on all websites
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I used to work for a retail company that signed people up for preferred customer accounts, and there are largely 2 kinds of emails: [email protected] and [email protected]
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.
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@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.
No, that one still gets all the spam. Was in some breaches. I use it for sketchy sites.
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I still use my old email but it’s been relegated to “email that goes in websites I don’t trust”
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
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.
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Roadkill4diner, used for years until I needed to be more professional
This cat is using a computer.
Your argument is invalid.
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.
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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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