Subject: Job Application
From: pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.com
The suggestions for email addresses if yours was already taken used to include what you entered plus the last two digits of your birth year. I wonder how many people born in 1988 followed that advice and now deeply regret it.
Pretty sure just yesterday I saw a Lemmy comment bemoaning that 88 had been co-opted for exactly this reason.
this was already a thing way before emails became a thing
Wait what are all you talking about? 88 just means shit like hugs and kisses or good luck.
The link you gave provides you with the answer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_neo-Nazism
Let's not let neonazis take culturally common shit like the okay sign, thumbs up, or literal numbers please.
Let's seize these concepts back, comrades! We will redistribute them back to the people!
"Cultural significance" > "in Neo-nazism"
Can you start ~~on Monday~~ tonight 😏
Unfortunately, my first email address was @geocities.com.
Godspeed, you ugly collection of websites.
Mine is @aol.com and I'm afraid I'm gonna have to change emails for every single service I've ever used one day 🫠
I still have and use an email I created in 1995.
The first part of my email has remained unchanged since about then. I've gone through various services though. AOL, Earthlink, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and now Proton.
I also have a first.last@gmail address I keep for anything more formal (resume).
99' yahoo account? Pretty much been my spam account since I got a Gmail in 04'
I used to work for a retail company that signed people up for preferred customer accounts, and there are largely 2 kinds of emails: Robert.Layfield@gmall.com and BigMon3yT_Bone69@hotmall.com
It is possible and even good to change your email. I wrote an email service called Port87, and changed my email twice during the process. It really sucks how much work it is, but it’s worth it. Every email service that’s been around for decades just sucks. They survive on the fact that it’s hard to change your email.
Yeah the hardest part is going around and updating your address with sites you use.
Every time I've done it, I've also put an auto forward on my old address, and a label or other alert for anything that comes through from the old so I can go update it or block that address from auto forwarding.
@hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, my own host, @gmail.com, @protonmail.com. Seems like I make a new one every decade or so.
Almost exactly the same, except my proton is @proton.me.
And I've have my Hotmail since a year or two after it started, so almost 30 years.
No, that one still gets all the spam. Was in some breaches. I use it for sketchy sites.
I lost my original one, because I didn't know shit about secure passwords, and never bothered to try to have it recovered.
Me using my Xbox 360 username for life. I can't simply bring myself to change it now.
I have 5 emails, the most used and first being made when i was 7 or 8 and contains my real name
I've been using the same email address since I was 14
Use email aliasing service or custom domain and get a different email address for each account/website
Roadkill4diner, used for years until I needed to be more professional
Most or all e-mail services allow you to create e-mail aliases, which are alternate e-mail addresses that deliver to the same mailbox and use the same login.
I got a Gmail when it came out back when Hotmail was 10MB and gmail had a size that you could see grow on top. It is just my name shortened.
XxUnProxX6969420@gmail.com, gotcha!
Probably Elon Musk email...
I think that's his kids name, actually.
Including "atpersand Gmaildotcom". It's dignified. Can't just say "at". Like a pleb.
I bought a domain. Then I went about making a new mail for each site I registered at. That way when I start getting spam to that address I know it's been leaked and I just kill it.
I love it when coworkers or clients in my job accidentally use their personal emails, they always have stupid names and after knowing someone only professionally it really throws me through a loop in a good way lol
This cat is using a computer.
Your argument is invalid.
Wait what do you mean you created a new mail, is that allowed?
No, the Internet people are coming for them right now.
I made one for both my kids that now I think is silly and I wonder if they’ll ever change it.
My mum also made one for me when i was a kid, I never did change it even like 15 years later.
I did the same thing for my step-kids. firstlast@gmail
Junk: {firstName}{lastName}@gmail.com
Real alias: {firstName}{lastName}@pm.me
Real: {randomAlphanumeric}@protonmail.ch
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