Email bragging rights
How many email addresses do you have? When I'm asked that question, my snappy answer is "an infinite number", since I can receive mail on any email address within my domain. The practical answer is somewhere around 10, with only about three really being used on a regular basis. I'm not usually one to brag (ok, just nod and smile at that), but I've been meaning to jot this one down for some time partly just so I can see them all in one place.
Top Level Domains | ||
---|---|---|
.com | ||
rsmi | active | bruce.wilson |
vtext | active | 3126361212 |
fers | inactive | bwilson |
interaccess | inactive | bwilson |
.net | ||
lasthome | active | bwilson |
comcast | active | brucetwilson |
distributed | inactive | bwilson |
.org | ||
getright | active | bwilson |
wefcvalpo | inactive | bwilson |
.mil | ||
us.army | active | bruce.t.wilson |
.gov | ||
none yet | ||
.edu | ||
none yet | ||
Well-Known Sites | ||
yahoo | active | brucetwilson |
gmail | active | brucetwilson |
msn | inactive | bwilson |
hotmail | inactive | brucetwilson |
hushmail | active | brucetwilson |
pobox | none yet | |
aol | none yet | |
pobox | none yet |
To keep things simple, I've omitted my own domain. Suffice it to say I use two main addresses, plus about six aliases on an infrequent basis.
On a related note, the best anti-spam technique I can recommend is to own your own domain, and host the mail services with someone who makes it easy to set up new email addresses at a whim. Also helpful is if you can have all email at your domain come to you by default.
For example, let's say I visit the DevNull website and decide that I would like to download some software. Their website requires me to enter an email address to which they will send the unlock codes.
Now, I don't know anything about DevNull Inc. or their privacy practices, and frankly I don't want to invest a lot of time reading legalese to decide if it's worth the risk. I just want to download the software and get back to work.
Since all addresses at my domain come to me by default, I can enter "devnull@toomuchblue.com" in their email field, and forget about it. The license comes to me with my other email. I don't have to set anything new up for this particular address to work – it is created simply by naming it.
Later, if I discover that DevNull Inc. is sending me a lot of marketing material I don't want, or worse, they have sold my address to others, I can now take the time (about 60 seconds) to redirect the devnull@toomuchblue.com address into a blackhole. Email arriving to that address is discarded as soon as the sender finishes sending it. It never even occupies any storage space.
N.B. I have already blackholed this address, as spammers harvest email addresses from websites.
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