# Is my email address too uncool? Should I change?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-email-address-too-uncool-should-i-change/703807>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 5, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-email-address-too-uncool-should-i-change/703807 "2014-11-05T22:10:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-email-address-too-uncool-should-i-change/703807/41 "2014-11-08T01:07:00Z")

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> [@BeeGee](#):
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> You can. I just checked my yahoo account that I’ve had for years and I’ve got email. I’ve never used it, but apparently some woman in Abilene did. Car rental receipts from this summer. Hmmm.

I said:

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> It seems you can’t get a US yahoo email **anymore**.

I never said that an old yahoo email account wouldn’t work or that it wasn’t offered in the US in the past. I simply said that a yahoo email address is not _officially_ offered in the U.S. at this time. Am I not being clear?

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-email-address-too-uncool-should-i-change/703807/42 "2014-11-08T04:53:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Amateur Barbarian]  
Ddidn’t domains (or their predecessors) use bangs (!, for the clueless) as separators well into the public internet era?  
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Oh yeah, the dark ages before DNS caught on. I’d forgotten about those horrors when trying to contact a friend at NASA. Today, they’re something short and sweet like [cecil@nasa.gov](mailto:cecil@nasa.gov) but twenty years ago, the email systems were a bit dense and you had to tell them the specific server like cecil@server!department!facility! [nasa.gov](http://nasa.gov)

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-email-address-too-uncool-should-i-change/703807/43 "2014-11-08T05:05:03Z")

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> [@rsa](#):
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> I never said that an old yahoo email account wouldn’t work or that it wasn’t offered in the US in the past. I simply said that a yahoo email address is not _officially_ offered in the U.S. at this time. Am I not being clear?

Maybe I am misunderstanding but I just created [yes\_you\_can\_rsa@yahoo.com](mailto:yes_you_can_rsa@yahoo.com). The pw is SDMB2014. It’s all yours if you want it.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-email-address-too-uncool-should-i-change/703807/44 "2014-11-08T06:39:30Z")

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The only thing that sucks about yahoo mail is that they’re spam magnets. I ended up abandoning mine in favor of gmail.

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