Subject: Job Application
From: pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.com
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.
Unfortunately, my first email address was @geocities.com.
Godspeed, you ugly collection of websites.
Same. deepshitjunkie@geocities.com to be precise.
I still have and use an email I created in 1995.
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).
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’m not sure if I understand properly what you mean.
Is it a good idea or a bad idea?
I think the person was saying it’s a good idea to have your own domain because with a gmail.com address, you’re stuck with Gmail. With your own, you can change providers any time by setting up your addresses at the new provider and updating the mail records to point to them. Boom! New email provider, same addresses.
With your own domain you also can also make up email addresses on the fly anytime.
99’ yahoo account? Pretty much been my spam account since I got a Gmail in 04’
