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Me except I was smart and made my email just my name.
How are these full of spam? Does nobody maintain their email? I’ve had the same address for over 20 years and rarely get spam.
I use mine to sign up for random crap and made a game of trying to get as much spam as possible. I tick all the e-mail options.
Laziness. Just let stuff build up cuz fuck it.
“Get with Josh about how to handle this client’s order logistically. Is your email still sexysandworm2010?”
“Y-yeah.”
“Come now, I haven’t used that in decades. I’m throatgoat69 now.”
This hits close to home. Bought a domain as a teen and still have universal forwarding setup for email so I have this wacky domain but I love being able to instantly create a working email address with it and it still holds my primary email account. If suzy’s flower shop needs an email address for me to get 10% off if I sign up for a mailing list, I tell them my email is suzysflowers@myjuveniledomain.com
And they think I’m full of shit until it works.
I’m old enough that my Gmail (and my Hotmail) are just first name and last name.
Same. Registered it 2005.
Very me irl. Almost the same ages. I’m looking to change it to one that uses my own domain name though, so I can switch email providers in the future. The convenience of Gmail was always too much to overcome, but the US is no longer to be trusted and I’d rather use something European and cut any ties to the US. Before the orange man pulls some stunt that either results in all my mail being inaccessible or all my mail being shared with the world wide web.
PSA: Web hosting with email can be cheaper for many inboxes than an email service is for just one email. You don’t even have to use the web hosting part of it.
Proton wanted 6 or 7 euros per inbox. Hetzner web host with 100 inboxes was under 2 euros. I don’t even use the hosting part of it.
But hosting your own email is a huge pain in the ass and not worth the time or effort. I would rather spend a few extra euros to save hours of my life trying to get it to work.
All you have to do is set the DNS records and stuff. It’s not self hosting, you point it to their instance of webmail. It’s an extra service that you get with the hosting service.
Does gsuite or Proton not require you to set DNS records?
Damn that’s quite the difference. Worth considering yeah. I do want to be flexible though, so I hope it still allows you to switch e-mail provider without changing the e-mail address
If you own your domain, I don’t see why not.
I still use my Gmail account and proud to say that I will use it forever. Even though Google have gone to the dark side, I will keep my Gmail mainly because my email address was created way back before they forbid anyone having a strange sounding email address. My email address is a relic from the olden fun days.
I had no idea they forbid email addresses.
They probably don’t, the fun ones are already taken.
Haha…ha… ha
(Me, over 40 in the same sitch)
seitch
I still sometimes think about my first email address, and how it had a four letter password. Just signed up at Yahoo, it wasn’t anything special.
Cause you had the greatest internet security you could ever ask for: unmonetizability.
456,976 possibilities. Which crazy machine could find that cool password. I had similar stuff back then 😝
A lot fewer possibilities than that! No special characters, all lower case, it was a word in the dictionary.
Those were different times.
