# How many e-mail addresses do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702 "2006-02-09T17:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/41 "2006-02-10T14:45:14Z")
It’s weird – I would have thought there was _somebody_ out there with just one. Anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/42 "2006-02-10T14:59:38Z")
Me. I only have one. Down through the years I’m sure I might have had a half-dozen or so. They never last. I always get bored with them, forget the passwords and I always end up redirecting them to my primary account anyway (Yahoo!) which is the one I’ve had the longest. I’ve even stopped using Outlook. I haven’t even set up my email account with my ISP. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/43 "2006-02-10T15:10:50Z")
Shoot, I forgot about my Gmail account. That makes 3. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/44 "2006-02-10T16:56:37Z")
To add on to what **Seven** and **TimeWinder** said, if you have a Gmail account, you can do what they’re talking about. If you have [yourname@gmail.com](mailto:yourname@gmail.com), register at the SDMB as [yourname+sdmb@gmail.com](mailto:yourname+sdmb@gmail.com). NYTimes gets [yourname+nyt@gmail.com](mailto:yourname+nyt@gmail.com), and so on. If spam starts arriving at one of those, just junk all incoming emails to that address. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/45 "2006-02-10T22:16:12Z")
Four, not counting old inactive ones. An old Yahoo address that I still check occasionally, a GMail account, a school e-mail and a spam account I use to sign up for stuff online. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/46 "2006-02-11T10:43:44Z")
4 Yahoo 2 Hotmail 1 Net Zero 1 Juno 1 G-Mail 1 Verizon Most with the same username! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/47 "2006-02-11T11:01:39Z")
Two Yahoo. One Hotmail. One MyRealBox. One Mail.cz One work email address. One mobile phone email address. One ISP email address. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/48 "2006-02-11T13:12:46Z")
I have an infinity of accounts for each of the domains I own, but apart from that, I have one for each ISP, one GMail, and three work addresses. One thing I do when submitting an email address is to use the subscribee as the name - a slight variation on the idea mentioned earlier. For instance, I’m sdmb@oneofmydomains. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/49 "2006-02-11T14:46:53Z")
I have two for school - one was supposed to be removed from the system, oh, July 1, but it’s still around, and I suppose it will be indefnitely. I switched to the second because of the terrible amounts of pretty narsty junk mail I was receiving. I have a gmail account, and a yahoo account. I _think_ I have an email through insight, at least potentially, but I’ve never tried it. So - 4 or possibly 5, but only one that I use regularly. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/50 "2006-02-11T22:34:08Z")
1. My AOL account is my promary, but I also have 4 MSN accounts for my RPG characters. Oh , and I have a Yahoo account that I have never even looked at. I am sure it’s full of jumk mail :P. ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/51 "2006-02-12T03:36:38Z")
My work account is the one I use for everything. One with my ISP (Qwest) which I never use. One AOL account I’ve kept for dial-up access when I’m on the road. Another AOL account that my wife uses, but I have a screen name, which I never use. So I guess I have four. I’m the mail administrator for three different companies, and I monitor the admin accounts for those and occasionally send notices to users, but they’re not really my accounts, I never use them for anything that relates to me. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702/52 "2006-02-12T07:17:03Z")
one gmail for friends, one for mailing lists, and my hotmail which I’ve had for about ten years now, and use mostly for msn [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-e-mail-addresses-do-you-have/343702.md?page=2)