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And why?

(Not your specific address, of course.)

I dunno why this question came to me, but I'm curious. Who is your primary email provider? Is it Gmail? Hotmail? Yahoo? Other? An ISP, a personal website, or work address? Do you like their reliability? Their layout? Or did you just sign up once upon a time and never bother changing?

I've always found it odd when people (particularly in business) are so reticent to give up their randomword_2784@excite.com or whatever email address for something slim, non-numeric, and professional. I've had many, many, many (MANY!) email addresses in my time, and I've never really had a problem with losing contacts, so I don't know if that particular reason for reticence is based on perception or reality.

My main is Gmail. It's clean, fast, user-friendly, and permanent (not tied to hosting or an ISP). It also ties all of my Google accounts (voice, documents, YouTube, etc.) together.

You?

Academic Work: Current University
Professional Work: LLC Domain my partner and I own
Internet Dump: Gmail
Internet Friends: Gmail

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Same as you, Farsky, for the same reasons.

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I have 2 email address that I maintain contacts on. One is gmail, which is nice because it interfaces very well with my phone. The other is a very old service that used to be free but now I pay about $20/yr to keep. I've thought about getting rid of it, since it's redundant and not free, but I kinda like having it around after all these years.

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I suppose "main" is something of a misnomer, and Khross's response reminded me of that.

My work email is through the company (though I switched us from the hosting provider's solution to Gmail through Google Apps).
My "home" email is somewhat in flux...I'm toying with the idea of making my (newest) Gmail my standard, but right now it's an off-main account on my personal LLC site. I've also taken it and switched it to Gmail from Google Apps.
My junk/signup mail is another account on my personal LLC site.

And, how! In fact, your plethora of email addresses cost me an entire evening when I first got my Android phone... I swear, half the contacts in there were outdated emails for you that ended up on my phone from syncing with my gmail.

I have used ISP emails, university emails, gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and workplace emails.

I have stopped even touching my ISP emails, because it's just another hook in you that keeps you from staying with the most competitive/best value provider you can find at a given time. I use school/work related emails as context specific addresses, that way I don't have worries about forwarding or informing contacts about updates; by the time I don't have access to it anymore, I won't need to be dealing with the people who were mailing it.

Yahoo and Hotmail were both created back when you needed a valid email to sign up, preventing multiple accounts. Prior to Gmail, I used one for "real" stuff, and another for stuff for which I wasn't satisfied with the privacy policy or knew would invite spam. With the advent of Gmail, I now do the same with multiple accounts on Gmail, and have switched to Gmail because I find the web interface more palatable.

One of these days, I may get around to hosting my own mail server so I don't have Google crawling my correspondence, but in the meantime, I figure I'm obscure enough, and all the processes are automated, that there's no likely harm to come of it.

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Let's see I have @sprint.blackberry.net for general purpose. I like it because I get no spam and it doesn't really do rich text which I love.

For everything else I have a quasi-spam one @gmail.com

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I have multiple emails for freelance (gmail), school (domain), work (domain) and two personal (isp/gmail), but they all forward to the same Threadsy inbox.

Threadsy combines emails with social media like Twitter which I'm pretty active on, all from the same page. You can also click on one of your contacts and automatically see their tweets, fb status updates, flickr photos and more.

More often than not, though, I just check my phone.

Work : @tiaa-cref.org
Everything else : @gmail.com

Initially, I was just trying Gmail because it seemed to be the hot new thing and I was curious. The way it threads "conversations", at a time when no-one else was doing such a thing, won me over and I simply haven't seen any reason to switch.

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Gmail for general use.

ISP's email with my first name and last initial for "professional" e-mail, not that I'll ever get a job or anything but for resume or any other non-casual mailing. The address looks decently professional. Not even any numbers in the username part!

Whatever university email address I currently have for university stuff. I've gone through too many of these in the last 10 years. Here's to 2+ more years.

I even have a hotmail one I use for signing up to free websites that require an account. BugMeNot doesn't work so well these days it seems. Alas.

I have a dedicated address at work, for work stuff

I use gmail for my 'online' frineds/acquiantances, and on my phone, now that I'm running android

I have a personal domain with a bunch of different mailboxes that I use for various things, including the ever present 'catchall' box I use for registering at websites that I suspect will share my info....

My main (personal) e-mail is through Centurytel, and I have a g-mail account for other professional communications, and a university e-mail account for most of my day-to-day professional communications.

I don't use web-based e-mail apps unless I have to. I use Thunderbird to keep them all straight, with the exception of the university e-mail which is on an outlook exchange server.

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I'm starting to lose track of what I use them for.

Two from my Cox account. One is for personal stuff with friends. The other started out as one to be used for signing up with vendors when I order things.

Two at Gmail. One for a normal e-mail address to tie to my phone. The other to use for random purposes.

One at Hotmail that I use to sign up for things I know will create spam for me.

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The Dude abides.

Work email is pretty much my main email. We have an Earthlink account, but I rarely check it. We have it forwarded to my wife's work account, so she keeps more of an eye on it than I do. I also have Yahoo! and Excite (!) email accounts, use them for game registrations, Ebay, that kind of thing.

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Hotmail, because it was free whenever i signed up (like ten years ago), and sometimes you just need an email address to register for stuff. I check it maybe once every few months.

Work email, because I have to.

I don't have a personal email account that I actively use. Why do I want to give people another way to bother me?

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I use three (four if counting work).

1. Xmission. Local (but huuuuuge) ISP that I've been with since '97. Because I've used them for so long, I don't use it as much anymore as it's mostly just a place for spam to reside. I don't want to get rid of it because there are still a ton of websites/games that are attached to that email that I can never remember them all. That, and they give me 5 GB of online storage which is nice (though they did delete all of my old online storage without my knowledge.... including the last remaining copy of Da Tale of Tales. bastards). But despite some of the bad stuff, Xmission really is awesome. And as a man who lost a ton of original content that can never be replaced, that's saying a lot.

2. Hotmail. Pretty much my dump email for things I don't care about.

3. Work's email. It's the most used of all my emails, because... duh. That, and I am not an email person outside of work. I don't actively check, read, and respond to emails on my personal time.

4. Gmail. Most recent of my emails. It is the one I am extremely picky of what companies/people I give this one to. It is the only email I have tied to my phone. In this way, I tend to actually read and respond to emails on my personal time more often (see above).

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Comcast, my ISP.

I have found that e-mail programs tied to search engines and stuff ultimately = fail.

My ISP is Yahoo/AT&T, I use that e-mail address a lot.

I use gmail for a more business oriented subset, people trying to sell me stuff I might actually want to buy someday.

My work address is used mostly for . . . wait for it . . . work.

I also have several other addresses I've garnered over time for the purpose of giving someone an e-mail address I never check.

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@mac.com

I changed providers a couple of times and I hate having to update all my contacts with a new address. My mac.com address has my real name as the account ID.

@google.com

Bit bucket account.

Then there is the work account, but that never gets sent to anyone other than co-workers.

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In time, this too shall pass.

aol.com for spam...was my first email address.

yahoo.com for friends, family, etc....
Don't have much going on via email, since I'm not big on forwarding all the crap some of my friends and relatives send my way! Usually only used for confirmations of trips and purchases, although sending and receiving pictures is useful.

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I use comcast for most things, gmail for things I know I'll be checking out of the office, and a couple gmail dumping grounds for sketchy websites without a privacy policy I trust.

I have a few domains I bought years ago that I've been trying to work towards moving to, I just haven't for some reason.

I agree for Farsky. tim26boatzilla11 is a stupid business email addy.

On that note, I was thinking for some reason today I was missing geocities... odd

I've been using Gmail for years and years. What do you mean?

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I am guessing it's the Big Brother Fear that Google is a bottomless pit of data storage and once you put something in, it is theirs to keep forever and ever. But, really, every email you use saves everything you do. It's why when the FBI starts investigating ISP's and what-not that they ask them for a history of a person.

To be frank, everything you do on the internet (outside of SSL tunnels) is recorded in some fashion and is accessible by someone other than you. The only real way to avoid this is to be your own ISP (though other webservers have a history of you, still). Or spend your days using ways to encrypt your traffic, like Torpark or Freenet.

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junk: yahoo (mainly have a yahoo email so I have a messenger ID)
school and sending out new resumes: UNLV mail (more professional looking than my personal email is.)
most things: GMAIL and for the same reason as Mr. Sky. I am considering a change of email to something a bit more... professional sounding.

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Darksiege
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I have 7 accounts setup on my iPhone; ~4 actively used.

Two of the 7 are almost always emails sent to an alias due to my last name

In order of traffic:
Work (Of course)
GMail (Facebook spam)
MobileMe (family and friends)
Comcast! (crazy aunt)
Yahoo! (Flickr and similar)
AOL (Inactive)
ATT.net (Yahoo! under another name)

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