# Damed to Hell because of your email address?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 30, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663 "2000-01-30T04:39:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/1 "2000-01-30T04:39:00Z")
I have seen scattered comments such as:
“She’s got to be a [insert pejorative label here], look at her email address!”
Or,
“Well at least formerposter’s email address makes it blatantly obvious [that the poster is a certifiable nutcase].”
This last one came from the _DavidB should resign or be replaced_ thread in The Pit®, and in this particular case I would have to agree- but looking at the targeted email address, I fail to see anything sticking out like a sore thumb. So what is it about one’s email address that tags somebody as a loon?
Let me know- I wanna play too!
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### Author:  [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/2 "2000-01-30T04:53:00Z")
There are several places online where you can get a “web-based” e-mail account separate from the one provided by your ISP. A lot of people who get banned from the board get addresses at these and then re-register under different names. There is some discussion in the thread you mentioned to disallow those type of addresses for registration, which seems unfair to me. I myself have a Hotmail account because at one time my spouse and I were changing ISPs around every 4 months and I got tired of having to give people my new e-mail address. Our current ISP has a convoluted mail system and I’d hate to have to rely on that for my mail. I use the Hotmail address because that’s what’s easiest for me personally, not because I’m a troublemaker or crackpot (not much, anyway!)
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“Open up! It’s the pigs!”
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### Author:  [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/3 "2000-01-30T04:55:00Z")
But people have been called worse for less.
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Oh, I’m gonna keep using these #%@&\* codes 'til I get 'em right.
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### Author:  [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/4 "2000-01-30T04:58:00Z")
And I like the: "[insert pejorative label here]! It reminded me of [expletive deleted]!
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Oh, I’m gonna keep using these #%@&\* codes 'til I get 'em right.
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### Author:  [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/5 "2000-01-30T05:16:00Z")
Well, I think ‘@aol.com’ tells you something also.
Ray (doesn’t know where it’s @)
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/6 "2000-01-30T05:40:00Z")
The “targeted” email address was: [davidbdie@hotmail.com](mailto:davidbdie@hotmail.com).
Break that down and you see"
DavidB Die.
Kind of straightforward, isn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/7 "2000-01-30T07:56:00Z")
Oh ja, that does kind of stand out :eek:
I was erroneously looking at n/a’s address & wondering what the big deal was.
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### Author:  [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/8 "2000-01-30T19:12:00Z")
Gee thanks Nano. I use one of my AOL screen names rather than my domain account. AOL provides me with some anonymity \< grin \>
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### Author:  [@Court\_Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Court_Jester)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/9 "2000-01-30T19:36:00Z")
## I can certainly see how an AOL e-mail address would make you a loser. Just look at some of the people on this board that use them. TubaDiva, Tomndebb, Majormd, Melin, Dr. Fidelius. Yep a bunch of losers in that group.
A hat with bells on is not funny, it is the jester underneath.
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/10 "2000-01-30T19:47:00Z")
I have accounts with 3 ISPs, one of them AOL. The other two are bit cheaper than AOL, but not much. AOL works just fine; I think the main reason it is commonly derided stems from its widespread use - a little net snobbery at work. Hotmail has a legitimate function for manny, but it _is_ “easy” and thus is a refuge for those with hijinks in mind.
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damed-to-hell-because-of-your-email-address/6663/11 "2000-01-30T20:06:00Z")
And I’ve certainly been “Damed to Hell” before.