Based on the number of questions I see posted on the forums here about email scams and SPAM and the like, I have to ask how many email addresses does the average Doper have? I have 6 active and two inactive email accounts, the inactive ones get used from time to time and I have one permanently inactive address my first spam target you could say. Obviously this doesn’t include all the postmaster@ accounts though I do have 1 catchall account so my total added this way would be 9.
I used to have five but I’ve managed to downsize to a mere three. Work, home and one for my practically defunct band. If I ever get around to admitting that we’re never going to get another gig I’ll get rid of that one.
OK well there’s a road runner address that we never got working. It exists but I can’t use it so I’m not counting that one.
One and only one. I used to have three, but the extra two were mostly for storage.
Then I forgot about them and everything that was stored was deleted due to an inactive account. :rolleyes:
That’s hotmail for ya.
School address used only for school stuff and my Hotmail address.
I guess that since I have a Yahoo! account and an AIM account I have e-mail address at yahoo.com and aol.com. I have never opened these though…
Oh, actually make it 3. I forgot that I have a work address at the company I work for on breaks. I only use that one when I’m working there (a week or two every few months…)
1: Home e-mail: Given only to people I personally know (with the condition that it not be used for bulk/forwarded joke/virus alert/etc. emails to reduce the likelihood of it making it’s way onto any spammer’s list.) 100% spam-free to date.
2: Work e-mail: Used exclusively for work-related stuff
3: Free web-mail account: Address I supply to businesses, organizations, the Straight Dope, etc. I also give this to people if they want to bulk mail me their virus alerts, jokes and other stuff without bothering to BCC it. This is my spam-catcher. Once it gets overwhelmed with spam, I ditch it and open up a new one. I already went through one that fell under the weight of spam. The current one is a few months old and is spam free for the time-being.
I’ll take that as five as I said postmaster@ meaning mail admins only get one account, I have many domains and hence I’m also the mail administrator for each if I felt like activating all of them have as many as I want so sorry only one. :mad:
My examply these do not include those of my wife or of our as yet unborn child(expecting a November1 arrival of little fisherman).
Personal
Immediate family
Family
Close business associates
Subscription (Sky and Telescope, SDMB)
Other subscriptions (Of less serious nature)
Postmaster catchall and main work address
Spambin 1
Spambin 2
Not counted old account rarely opened only to see how much spam it still attracts.
I have three personal e-mail accounts. One that I only give to a few select people and one for most other personal mail. The third is used for various newsletters, etc. that I subscribe to.
I can also receive e-mail at work but is on the company account so I mostly use it only for business.
Two, one at yahoo and another at hotmail. Yahoo is used for personal correspondences and for livejournal notifications and hotmail is used exclusively for SDMB subscriptions.
