• How many people eventually abandon a bloated email account?
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I had 3 email addresses, one from back in somewhere in 2003 I think, I got a new one a couple years later. Both were hotmail. Eventually they got flooded with spam and shit, so I decided to try gmail. I like the simple design (I also liked hotmail back in 2004 or something, the design was a shitload better but it kept changing until it got shit like now). I got more careful with using my gmail address and use @mailinator.com addresses for quick registrations.
Create two accounts, one for giving out to sites/people you don't trust, and the other for just private use. [editline]7th January 2011[/editline] It's what I do, and I haven't had to abandon any accounts yet.
I had a culling of emails at one point. I now read every email I get now in my gmail account. It filters out spam so I forget that stuff exists. Since I got my Android I have my phone alert me whenever I get an email. Then I can read it on the phone as well so it's so simple. Never get bloated this way.
Been on hotmail since I was about 11, I am nearly 16 and still use the same account
I've had about 6-7 too. I do abandon my accounts eventually but it's usually after a long time. The email I have at the minute though is with GMail, and their filters are pretty good. If some place keeps sending me emails I don't want to read I just set up some filters to block those emails, so it remains fairly clean.
I've had 2 Yahoo! Accounts. I recently came to my senses and started using GMail. Feels good.
This is from the hotmail account I abandoned 2-3 years ago in place of Google Apps (which is just freakin amazing). [img]http://localhostr.com/files/J8dlAhk/email.png[/img] Do I win?
[img]http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/1846/gmailcopy.png[/img] [editline]7th January 2011[/editline] Yes I realize you can see the IP address it's not mine
[QUOTE=nicatronTg;27252128]In gmail, you can use your email address on websites with anything like this: [email]yourname+somethingelse@gmail.com[/email], as well as your.name and [email]yo.urname@gmail.com[/email]. The idea is that you can register at a website, say facepunch, with yourname+facepunch, and if a whole shit ton of spam comes to that address, it's trivial to determine where it came from. You can then from there create a filter that blocks anything to that address and such.[/QUOTE] I need to start doing that--not because I have lots of spam on my Gmail account, but that sounds pretty damn useful!
I have one old email address that I just use for signing up to likely spamming services, and my current hotmail seems to be doing a good job of keeping spam out.
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