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| jonovid:
on my third email address. because of spam. which is accumulating at the rate of 2 or 3 a day. most emails are from download requirement dialog boxes from expired trial software agreements going back 3 or 5 years. the software trial ends I then delete the software, but the their website still has my email address. I delete and dump their email address off the list, but the unwanted emails keep showing up in My in-box. to add to this my email service provider adds its own spam. at the rate of 1 or 2 a week. the end result is 98% of all email is unread messages going back 5 or more years. as I can't be bothered wading thru the mass of unread messages individuality requiring attention. anyone get spam phone numbers? or unwanted phone app's that refuse to die? |
| Kim Christensen:
I have a junk email account for this purpose. I never check it unless I'm expecting a confirmation email from the latest dodgy site that required a sign up. |
| Berni:
Yep always have a separate junk mail account set up. If you just need to register to download something then you give out the secondary junk one. Check it only to click the confirmation link then never look at it again until you need to register somewhere else. You only give out the real day to day use email to things where you might want to get notified of things, like Paypal or similar. Another trick you can use is slightly changing the email address for some things. For example you can add a +something to the email address recipient and it still gets delivered, so "user@mail.com" will get email sent to "user+foo@mail.com". If you use Gmail you can also get less conspicuous variations of your address by adding or removing dots. So for example the user "john.doe@gmail.com" does actually receive any emails sent to "johndoe@gmail.com" or "j.o.hn.doe@gmail.com". You can then potentially use this to filter emails. |
| Faranight:
Yep, definitely use multiple email addresses. I have one for banking, another for personal email, a third one for random online services I signed up for, fourth for gaming, fifth for online purchases and a sixth for official things, seventh for mailing lists. All emails then get delivered to respective folders in my inbox. Luckily, my provider allows me to use so many aliases, so I use them. |
| newbrain:
For one offs and test registrations I often use a temporary throw away address, such as https://10minutemail.com/ most sites accepts them. Of course, not having any persistence, they are not suitable for everything. My main address is on google, and I get very little spam (a bit on the raise these last years) always marked as such and not shown in the main inbox. I am quite careful on where I share it, and often use the freedom of "dots don't count" and "base.address+anything@gmail.com" to ease a possible later filtering. |
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