Useless Poll of the Day: How many email addresses do you have?

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Great tip!!! Thanks!!

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I use this frequently, but it usually breaks on many sites because they won’t consider the plus sign to be a valid character for email addresses, or they have such bad coders that they don’t properly escape the plus sign in some internal URL (where the plus sign means a space in URL’s.)

Another trick with GMail is that period’s don’t really exist. These three email addresses are all the same: My.Email.Account@ My.EmailAccount@ MyEmailAccount@ The period is usually not problematic for web sites.

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I do exactly the same thing. That’s one of the nice things about using your own domain for email. I have a catchall folder for all those company@ messages.

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I have 7 - six personal ones and one for work.

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I also use a catchall for my own domain and give every business a unique address. I also sometimes find out about data breaches before they are public - See’s candies and istockphoto are a few that come to mind. I’ve also received free upgrades on rental cars because they thought I worked there. I feel it’s a bit more secure because a hacker would have to know my unique password AND email address.

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@ThomasMNS I still have my first email address from when I was a kid too! I don’t use it…but I can’t seem to bring myself to dispose of it.

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My first one was an MSN network email address. Long since gone. They used to be my dial up ISP

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My first email address was my university address in 1995. That was my first usage of the internet. Before that, I used netmail on a Fidonet BBS (no, I cannot remember my address).

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They used to be my ISP too! MSN messenger was da bomb

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Yes, it was convenient. And, one of the few national dialups (at the time) that had a local phone number.

I actually worked as a chat host in 1 section on MSN for a while. It was kinda fun.

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I have six that I still use but I also know I have at least two more that are from the good old days but I don’t remember the passwords! And I really don’t care about them anymore…they’ve probably been closed.

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I remember reading that [address]@googlemail.com is always an alias for [address]@gmail.com, so that might provide some more alternates.