How many have you got?
By Jason Slater in Reader
Posted in E-mail on June 11, 2008 at 10:45 am
I currently have nineteen to choose from. My e-mail address is what I refer to of course and which one in use depends on what I am doing at any particular time.
It seems that over a long period of time my email activities (and associated email address) have become context based. I have e-mail accounts for work, home, social networking, my various Blogs and hobbies/interests and some from long ago services that I just cannot bring myself to let go. The email interface varies from email account to email account, some use Outlook, others are web based whilst one or two are mobile push solutions. Very rarely do they cross over so checking emails these days becomes a long task of logging on to various systems and remembering their various quirks and inconsistencies. I could forward them all to one address but I really do not want them cramming up one inbox - what I really need now of course is a system to manage my email systems.
It makes me wonder what the most number of active email address any one individual may have?
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Loading ...Comment by Mike Skuse - June 11, 2008 on 10:30 pm
I believe I have around 10 email addresses in total, 1 or 2 of which I use on a regular basis, and a few of which I’m sure are disabled. I blame the fancy features that some offer, and the need for certain ones - Windows Live Messenger works better with Msn/live addresses, my yahoo address is the one I’m known best on so that one is my regular one, but I like the features and layout of Gmail, its also compatible with IMAP now which is perfect, I therefore forward all mail from yahoo to gmail, and use their brilliant web based service with occasional trips to outlook to see whats new.
So I dont quite match your 19 sadly.
Comment by Khalid Hosein - June 19, 2008 on 8:05 am
Wow, 19 is well.. amazing. I essentially only have 3, although I have a bunch of different aliases that I used here and there. But I don’t think of them as distinct e-mail addresses so much.
They all get funneled to 2 different accounts, and I have lots of filters to sort things out, so my Inbox doesn’t become a monster within a day.
I keep thinking that we all just really need to simplify - ex: cut out some of those extra newsletters that seemed like a good idea, but that we never read.
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