Maybe this doesn't apply to you... maybe it does and you don't know it... I didn't think it applied to me until this afternoon.
I don't know how many email addresses I have. That is ok, because as long as I get all of the mail, there isn't a problem. But, I had forgotten about one of my email addresses... and I wasn't getting the mail from it. And that would be 2,453 messages since Dec. 17th, 2007. 2,453 messages.
At some point, that email address got dropped from my Outlook pulls... Outlook stopped pulling the messages from it at some point priot to Dec. 17th, 2007. I didn't notice... I mean, I noticed, but I didn't notice. I noticed that I wasn't getting a few email newsletters. I wasn't getting messages from a group I was in. I wasn't getting notifications from a forum I belong to... But I really didn't pay attention.
Today, I needed to move a domain. When I needed the EPP code, I had to go find it via webmail. When I logged in... there were 2,453 messages.
I have rectified the situation. I have added the account to Outlook. And while I never forgot the address, I have made sure to never forget to collect the mail.
What about you?
How many email addresses do you have? Are you sure?
And another thing... Do you have control over your email addresses? Are there people looking for you with a former brokerage? Are there people looking for you at addresses you don't have anymore... and that you can't forward? You should only promote addresses of which you have control. Own your domain. In addition to LaneBailey.com, I have also purchased LaneBailey.info... it will be just about social networking and a curriculum vitae.
The final thing... Don't be afraid of having disposable addresses. Part of the reason I have so many addresses is that I use "disposable" email addresses tied to my domains. These are specifically tasked addresses... like one for FaceBook, one for Flickr, etc. That way, if the address is sold to a spammer, I can drop it and apply a new address without having to change it in dozens of places.
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I'd love to hear from you...
It is scary when you realize how many email addresses are out there for us - i didn't check one and had the same result!
Lane,
That's good advise about have the 'disposable' email addresses for various uses,
Thanks!
And come up to see us sometime when you get north of Lake Lanier.
Have you ever visited Lake Burton or Waterfall at Lake Burton? I want to show it you so you can tell everyone how pretty the area is!
Hope to see you in Rabun County soon!
Lynda
Lane,
I can empathize, my computer crashed and I had to begin all over. Even when I hard drived all the information, I still had issues with my outlook until I began using Gmail. I love gmail and there is no limit like outlook when sending important information. Take Care Because I Care.
Miss Chris Fuller
RE/MAX Weslake investments
I have a few dozen....but ALIASES are the key - they are FREE, take a minute to setup and you can dispose of them whenever they are spammed heavily WITHOUT affecting your primary mail address.
I try to use one now, but I have another for spam and when I need to sign up for something.
I recently changed offices. Someone sent an e-mail to me at an address that would seemed to have made sense....my first name @ my domain name . com.
She asked me later and I said "oops, that's not a functional address, guess it should be huh?", so I had to launch yet another e-mail address.
You're right. I have too many e-mail addresses.
I guess I'm just a simple guy. I have one. I get about 200-300 emails a day but get very little spam. Gmail seems to be very good at eating it.
I have a couple of addresses I give to people that I really don't want to get mail from and only check it once a month or so to empty the mail box.
Lise - I don't feel as bad now...
Lynda - I get up there ocassionally.
Chris - I have one of those, too...
Anthony - That is the basis of the disposable addresses.
Dennis - I think I actively use about 6... And I have another 40 or 50 disposable ones.
Vickie - Yep. Trying to make as many as possible automatic helps. Outlook goes and gets my stuff...
Bryant - I have some for different reasons, too.. they go to different folders...
Terry - You're evil... ;^ ) I should do that.
I like spam. No, really, I do. Mostly I like it on toast with spinach, cheese and a little mayo. Unfortunately I probably get too much of it in my email but I can NOT run a word or phrase filter. I use blacklisting but even then from time to time I miss an important email. The level of spam did decrease when Christopher Smith was arrested and again when Yuki Shiina was arrested. My "disposable" addresses (one of them is 14 years old) stay full of my favorite treat! Good going Lane - way to teach.
I have two- one for work and one for friends and family. My work email is automatically sorted into various different folders depending on who it is from and what type email it is... ie invoices to a folder, web site hit notificiations to one folder, current clients to one folder. There are ways to sort out instead of having multiple email address where you don't have 2400 lost/delayed for too long messages.
Good reminder. I am not sure how many I have. I tend to forward them all to one or two addresses. But then sometimes the forward doesn't work!
Ken - I like bologna better (by the way... the song DID help me spell that...)
Tammy - One thing to keep in mind is that aside from disposable addresses, you might need to keep any other address you use... forever.
Eileen - That was one of my issues...
Guess we need to weed out the bad ones and keep the good ones.