How many e-mail addresses do you use?

[Dinner]

I'm just curious what the average is. I have one for work, one for friends & family, and one I use to register for stuff which I think will result in spam. How about you?

[LordShiva]

>5

[Agathon]

I have gmail and mac mail. I don't register for porn sites, so I don't use any others. I did have a hotmail account that is so old I had it before MS bought hotmail. I stopped using it. Weirdly, it had been put on the mailing list for a nationwide Hispanic fraternity, and it was quite fun reading about some of the strange stuff they got up to.

I filter my mail from family, friends and work on the client side with smart mailboxes.

[Spec]

2. 1 for everything and 1 for porn sites.

And 1 for work...so 3, but 2.

Spec.

[Lorizael]

Two. One work and one everything else. I used to have many more, each with a specific purpose in mind, but I got lazy.

[phoenixcager]

Six active accounts. (actually 7, one from my ISP, which I haven't been checking)

[snoopy369]

Actually use, 3: one spam, one main home, one work. Several others that aren't meaningfully active.

[Asher]

3.

My personal account (5-6 emails/day of the "real" variety, far more if you include filtered/categorized autogenerated stuff like Firefox bug progress).

My work account for my consulting company (maybe 10-12 emails a day).

My work account for the investment bank I'm under contract to. I get 4,000 emails a day (no joke), though I only read about 400 and send about 100 myself.

[Asher]

Re: How many e-mail addresses do you use?

Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm just curious what the average is. I have one for work, one for friends & family, and one I use to register for stuff which I think will result in spam. How about you?

Do I need to mention how silly it is to have two personal emails addresses just for talking to different people?

Use gmail filters and labels. Email from family members get labeled "Family" automatically, work domains get labeled "Work" automatically, etc.

You can even give different emails out to have it filtered based on that, eg: sandiegorox+family@gmail.com and sandiegorox+friends@gmaill.com and sandiegorox+porn@gmail.com.

You could even make the sandiegorox+porn stuff get deleted instantly.

[Slade Wilson]

4. I have an ISP account but that doesnt count, i never use it.

My main addy on gmail, its mirrored addy on yahoo, my other DL addy at gmail , and also an addy on my friends server which is my oldest account.

My porn sites direct to my main gmail account, but its filters seem good. No spam.

[snoopy369]

A lot of us (ie, me) have a work address that is nonnegotiable - ie, (corp username)@(work.com) ... As fun as it would be to use gmail for that, it's not an option

In my case, my spam email address is yahoo, and preexists gmail, so it's actually more work to set up the gmail filter than to just keep using Yahoo for it

[ZEE]

only 2, and i get them confused all the time still

[Asher]

Originally posted by snoopy369
A lot of us (ie, me) have a work address that is nonnegotiable - ie, (corp username)@(work.com) ... As fun as it would be to use gmail for that, it's not an option

In my case, my spam email address is yahoo, and preexists gmail, so it's actually more work to set up the gmail filter than to just keep using Yahoo for it

I was referring to using gmail for personal use, not work. Oerdin has 2 personal emails depending on if it's family or friends, which is just weird.

As for "legacy" accounts...I've all of my old accounts forwarded to my gmail when possible. I've got 4 gmail accounts also (to reserve a name more often than not), which I've forwarded to my main gmail.

[Garth Vader]

Originally posted by Mr Snuggles

I was referring to using gmail for personal use, not work. Oerdin has 2 personal emails depending on if it's family or friends, which is just weird.

As for "legacy" accounts...I've all of my old accounts forwarded to my gmail when possible. I've got 4 gmail accounts also (to reserve a name more often than not), which I've forwarded to my main gmail.

When he said "I'm just curious what the average is. I have one for work, one for friends & family, and one I use to register for stuff which I think will result in spam. How about you?"

I assumed that was just one personal, one work, and one spam. The same as I have I don't know how you got 2 personal ones out of that

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Mr Snuggles

I was referring to using gmail for personal use, not work. Oerdin has 2 personal emails depending on if it's family or friends, which is just weird.

No, I have one for friends and family and then one for spam. I use my gmail as the friends and family address and my old hotmail for basically nothing but registering on websites.