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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

    Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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    Single Step Debugger
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    Only two – one yahoo which I rarely use and one gmail, which from some time is not exactly “mine” because my wife is using it too.

    The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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      OriginalGriff wrote:

      the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up.

      Try this[^].

      It's time for a new signature.

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      OriginalGriff
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      Thank you! Bookmarked, and logged in my secure password store. :thumbsup:

      Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        What no throwaway for those sites which insist on a signup before you can see how good / bad they are? I certainly don't give them any email I check regularly - or indeed, at all... :-D

        Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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        My spam filters (server and Thunderbird client) take care of that!  I do end up getting tons of spam every day, but almost all of it (like 99+%) is autorouted to my Junk folder. /ravi

        My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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        • RaviBeeR RaviBee

          My spam filters (server and Thunderbird client) take care of that!  I do end up getting tons of spam every day, but almost all of it (like 99+%) is autorouted to my Junk folder. /ravi

          My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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          OriginalGriff
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          I get about four spam items a week - and my spam filter moves that so I can check it later. It's made (important) mistakes before! And before you ask - this email is about ten years old...

          Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

            Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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            Dan Neely
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            1 Work. 2 private gmail. 3 public gmail. 4 DNS registration gmail. 5 legacy imap. 6 legacy pop. 3-6 are all forwarded to 2. Actually I'm not even sure if 5 and 6 are still up. The last time I needed to use one to retrieve a password was almost 18 months ago. Without Gmail's spam filter they would've been nuked a few years ago.

            3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

              Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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              Jonas Hammarberg
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              10 :sigh: but five of them are for an voluntary organisation where I happen to be wearing too many hats (some which I will be relieved of in a few months, hopefully :) ). The rest are business and private and a bragging one - @computer.org :-O

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                leonej_dt
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                I have... * A personal Gmail account, * Two work email accounts, one for general work email, the other for communication with a specific team, * My university account, which I use mainly to get spam from other ex-students who now work as "salespeople", aka spammers, * A Hotmail account for subscriptions, news (YaY! CodeProject Daily News!), etc., * I-don't-remember-how-many Yahoo! accounts, which I used to play Yahoo! Chess, when it was still decent. These days I only use them to recover the games I saved as chess notation. I am also planning to get a MobileMe account, but I'm not sure about it yet.

                If you can play The Dance of Eternity (Dream Theater), then we shall make a band.

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                  Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                  Tom Deketelaere
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                  1 gmail account (with 1 alias) 1 from my hosting that I never use nor even know how to access anymore (but is forwarded to my gmail) And that's it :)

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                    Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                    ghle
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                    As many as I want. I create them on the fly under my domain. Each questionable sign-up gets it's own e-mail, so I can see where SPAM is coming from. TAXCUT sends Chico's e-mail! :doh:

                    Gary

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                      Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                      Eric R Johansson
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                      I created a spammail-website for this thing, in swedish. It's free and available to anyone if you want to try it - http://storastyggainternet.se. If you don't know swedish and want to try it, just send an email to <whateveryouwant>@storastyggainternet.se and get it at http://storastyggainternet.se/<whateveryouwant>. So now I have 2 "static" email, work and private, and 1 legacy(msn/msdn/live account). Works out fine. // Eric

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                        Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                        phannon86
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                        3. Work. Gmail (primary) Hotmail (for any junk)

                        He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                          Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                          jsc42
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                          1 Professional (+ 3 alias) since ~1994 autoforwarded to company 1 Company (+ 1 alias) since 1996 1 Client (was since 1990 but they changed domains, so only since 2000ish) 2 + 1 for wife (out of potential 5) With ISP (+ 5 (out of potential 10) aliases) 1 + 1 for wife (out of potential 5) With own domain Just before anyone else says it ... (out of potential 5) refers to no of bought addresses, not to no of wives!

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                            Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                            SohjSolwin
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                            I have about : 3 yahoo (2 probably auto closed by now, 1 I keep for spam and old accounts I don't want to switch to my new address) 1 own domain 1 gmail (With several + filters for nearly everything. I use the YourAddress+Whateveryouwant@gmail.com type addresses very frequently.) 1 ISP (Not used. Ever.) I use the gmail one as my main for personal stuff and the domain address for professional/business (non-day to day job) type stuff and the old yahoo one is kept for legacy accounts that I can't switch over and for accounts I don't want to clutter my gmail with. Using the + filters help significantly with spam. For your cat-food example, you could use YourAddress+catfood@gmail.com and once you receive the emails you need, or start receiving spam, just set a filter to send the emails sent to that address to spam. Of course, not everyone sees email addresses with a + as valid. For those I use the old yahoo "spam" account.

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                              Only two – one yahoo which I rarely use and one gmail, which from some time is not exactly “mine” because my wife is using it too.

                              The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                              ely_bob
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                              personal, Work, (and like 5 or 6 others that I never use) :laugh:

                              I'd blame it on the Brain farts.. But let's be honest, it really is more like a Methane factory between my ears some days then it is anything else...

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                                As many as I want. I create them on the fly under my domain. Each questionable sign-up gets it's own e-mail, so I can see where SPAM is coming from. TAXCUT sends Chico's e-mail! :doh:

                                Gary

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                                underclocker
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                                Exactly! I love being able to see how shady a small group is. Plus when the spam comes flying in I can shut the email down or forward it all to the "investor relations" dept. of the offending party.

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                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                                  Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                                  xperroni
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                                  Actually I only have about three now: two are all but unused and I'm planning on deleting them, and the third is Gmail. I've always felt nervous about this kind of account proliferation enticed by Internet services, so I take steps to prevent them. I try to never have more than one service of a given kind; get as many services as possible from the same provider; and discontinue unused accounts. And now you know why I dumped Yahoo! and am currently a Google whore. ^_^!

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                                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                    How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                                    Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                                    Battlehammer
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                                    Four that I can remember... 1. Work 2. Yahoo, which I don't remember the login for 3. GMail, my primary private account 4. Hotmail, this for my junk but I have been using it more and more lately because I like some of the new features.

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                                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                      How many email addresses do you lot have now? I have about five - thanks to Google, MS live, and the fact that I kept forgetting my "throwaway" account details. But now, the wife wants to check a cat food offer, which wants a sign up. OK, lets see... Yep, have a new email dear: "Dontsendmeanycrap******@******.com" is available - that will do nicely... So off she goes, she now has two as well! Oh, bugger, I forgot three for the web site - make that about eight...

                                      Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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                                      I have about 20, all POP3 of course !!! - 1 work nº 1 - 1 work nº 2 - 4 private, of my ISP . Official. . Pseudoofficial. . For family and friends. . For internet stores. - 1 anonimus for search work, of my ISP. - 2 for sending files between works and home and reverse, of my ISP. - 2 for forums, CodeProject, hardware, internet questions, etc, of my ISP. - 1 anonimus for bookmarks, of GMail. - 1 anonimus for ski themes, of GMail. - 1 anonimus for ....., of Yahoo. - 2 anonimus for ....., of GMX. - 1 anonimus for ....., of Inbox. - 1 anonimus for ......, of Terra. - and 3 ó 4 historical, of some old ISP. And I do not see any good reason to share my mail adress, I do often use 10minutemail, is very goood!!!! And now searching for another, with alias. My philosophie is: for every theme a dif-erent provider. Do some one can recomend me a international provider of free POP3 email, with alias?. Thanks in advance. And i see all emails in one place: www.ch-software.de/popman/[^] :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: By

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                                        I have about 20, all POP3 of course !!! - 1 work nº 1 - 1 work nº 2 - 4 private, of my ISP . Official. . Pseudoofficial. . For family and friends. . For internet stores. - 1 anonimus for search work, of my ISP. - 2 for sending files between works and home and reverse, of my ISP. - 2 for forums, CodeProject, hardware, internet questions, etc, of my ISP. - 1 anonimus for bookmarks, of GMail. - 1 anonimus for ski themes, of GMail. - 1 anonimus for ....., of Yahoo. - 2 anonimus for ....., of GMX. - 1 anonimus for ....., of Inbox. - 1 anonimus for ......, of Terra. - and 3 ó 4 historical, of some old ISP. And I do not see any good reason to share my mail adress, I do often use 10minutemail, is very goood!!!! And now searching for another, with alias. My philosophie is: for every theme a dif-erent provider. Do some one can recomend me a international provider of free POP3 email, with alias?. Thanks in advance. And i see all emails in one place: www.ch-software.de/popman/[^] :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: By

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                                        Magnetomage
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                                        i have approx 34 email address... 2 for work. 3 junk/ throw aways 6 accounts for different aliases i use 1 for taxes/school/gov't use. +1 for each project or online community or organisation i am a member of. most of them i use weekly. only one do i use infrequently.

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                                        • E Eric R Johansson

                                          I created a spammail-website for this thing, in swedish. It's free and available to anyone if you want to try it - http://storastyggainternet.se. If you don't know swedish and want to try it, just send an email to <whateveryouwant>@storastyggainternet.se and get it at http://storastyggainternet.se/<whateveryouwant>. So now I have 2 "static" email, work and private, and 1 legacy(msn/msdn/live account). Works out fine. // Eric

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                                          Reuben crane
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                                          1 blackberry 2 yahoo 1 hotmail 1 personal website 1 work 2 edu I use 5 of them still

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