E-Mail Address Conventions
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No need to post them here, obviously, but I was wondering what your conventions for your personal e-mail addresses were.
Obviously your work probably dictates what you do there. But when you are signing up for a personal GMAIL, Outlook.com, etc. address, do you use a handle, your real name, etc...?
Like if you are John Q. Smith would you use [email protected] (if it was available) or something else?
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@BRRABill said:
No need to post them here, obviously, but I was wondering what your conventions for your personal e-mail addresses were.
Obviously your work probably dictates what you do there. But when you are signing up for a personal GMAIL, Outlook.com, etc. address, do you use a handle, your real name, etc...?
Like if you are John Q. Smith would you use [email protected] (if it was available) or something else?
my first and last name is always available
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I make up stuff. One has my first name in it, the rest are kinda nonsense to the outside observer. And now I have one that is the word that means "one who likes hot and spicy foods". At work it's just firstname@domain.
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I'm in the process of consolidating addresses.
I'm trying to decided if I want to use my name (which will also surely be available) or something made up.
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@BRRABill said:
I'm in the process of consolidating addresses.
I'm trying to decided if I want to use my name (which will also surely be available) or something made up.
both. because you want to look professional when job hunting.
I do not set my reply address to >nickname<@gmail.com
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This is a double edged sword.
By using some non sense email address you have much less chances of getting spam since the likeliness that some system will guess your correct address is much lower.
But the other side is the humans who you give it to won't remember it either.
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I always use my full name.
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I used my full name with my middle initial @gmail.com
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@Dashrender said:
By using some non sense email address you have much less chances of getting spam since the likeliness that some system will guess your correct address is much lower.
I haven't noticed a difference. I think they pull the lists from databases of emails they get from hacked sites and such.
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@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
By using some non sense email address you have much less chances of getting spam since the likeliness that some system will guess your correct address is much lower.
I haven't noticed a difference. I think they pull the lists from databases of emails they get from hacked sites and such.
I agree, I don't think that there is any "name guessing" going on. That would be super inefficient.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
By using some non sense email address you have much less chances of getting spam since the likeliness that some system will guess your correct address is much lower.
I haven't noticed a difference. I think they pull the lists from databases of emails they get from hacked sites and such.
I agree, I don't think that there is any "name guessing" going on. That would be super inefficient.
You're kidding right? a quick look at the logs on my Spam Filter shows dozens if not thousands of guessing email addresses that don't match anyone that works here, or ever has. many of the guesses are guesses of executives that do work here based on information found on our website. It's probably a 50/50 split on that.
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I should probably change my primary e-mail address which is [email protected]
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@BRRABill said:
I should probably change my primary e-mail address which is [email protected]
But you posted it in a public forum... Spamming to commence in 3...2...1...
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@dafyre said:
But you posted it in a public forum... Spamming to commence in 3...2...1...
Sorry, that was a (poorly executed, I guess) joke about guessing account names.
