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Cake day: May 30th, 2024

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  • some interesting points in this article, but none that are dealbreakers for me continuing the way i currently handle my email. the one example of : “your email is Hilton? do you work here?” typically no employee actually cares enough to ask that question. i have been running my email this way for 20 years (ish), so my sample size is large enough to suggest my results are reliable.

    still great food for thought, though!




  • i own a domain, and have a catchall account which forwards to a single address.

    any time i sign up for a service, i use their business name as the prefix.

    for example : i decide to go shop at a store called Mold Gravy, and the clerk tells me i can save 15% on today’s purchase by giving them my email address. i tell them it’s [email protected].

    this keeps my actual main email account from getting polluted, and also if i notice an increase in spam, i can see which company either sold my fake email address, or were compromised, and the i can simply block it.

    it costs $10/yr for a domain name, and another $5/month for hosting. well worth it.

    ETA : there’s a lot of really great suggestions here, not only in response to me, but also in this whole thread!