In the end, I created a new mail

https://lemmy.world/post/16485048

In the end, I created a new mail - Lemmy.World

Subject: Job Application From: [email protected]

(Not me, but it probably really is someone)

myfullnameanddateofbirth@hotmail.com
The suggestions for email addresses if yours was 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