AssignmentPayIn the end, I created a new mail
Jo MiranI still have and use an email I created in 1995.
Bet you get a ton of email intended for other people?
“what is this ‘email address’ it’s asking for”
“dunno, just write your name and then @aol.com”
halcyoncmdrTmy name is just common enough to never be available anywhere, until Outlook.com addresses were new. Got firstlast@outlook magically. Really just one guy in Australia though it seems that doesn’t realize he’s not getting any of those emails. I figure that his actual email is probably something like first.last@outlook and he misses the dot sometimes.
I have an uncommon but not unique name and I have [email protected]. As far as I know, others with my name usually include a middle initial in their email address but they sometimes forget it. I’ve gotten family event plans, car maintenance reminders, digital receipts, contractor quotes, and even once added to a daycare group (that one I did reach out to the coordinator to let them know and then removed myself from the group).
It’s a supercharged version of your experience when you are on an email service that’s >10 years older than gmail.com and a have a name (a ‘local part’) that’s even simpler than someone’s full name! Just constant opportunities to reset peoples’ passwords, rearrange their real-world plans, talk to their social groups, and of course receive all of their spam email…
Last year my email address - [email protected] - was added to the group list for a bunch of old ladies in England. First I was advised of my spot on the flower roster for the church, then I got someone’s holiday photos, a reminder that Gerald’s birthday was on the 9th, a lovely eCard congratulating me on my wedding anniversary… on and on.
I tried deleting them but they kept coming, and I worried about all the cool stuff initialslastname was missing out on. I sent an email to the whole group saying stop it & got a heartfelt apology and promises to correct it, but the emails have kept on coming - they all have me in their address books now. If I wasn’t so lazy it would be a good incentive to move fully to my proton address.