For some, I automatically change my "from" address using a rule in mutt, that change it based on the recipient. One could keep a list there I guess. For socia

For some, I automatically change my "from" address using a rule in mutt, that change it based on the recipient. One could keep a list there I guess. For social media etc., it hasn't come up for me, but for those or multi-contacts sharing it, I would have to choose a shared email I guess, or use a main "business" one. (I don't personally use FB, or those sites that have you log in using contact from another site. Fortunately my activities have been able to work around those.) I do keep a log in my personal organizer of what # comes next, and what address I have used w/ whom (with my notes for each org I talk to, alonside the contact names, physical address, conversation logs in case I need to quote who said what when, etc). Then I try to use the same email address w/ them when I reply (a few keystrokes I learned, in mutt; this has not been often enough to be a pain, so far, but I can see how it could grow to a nuisance if I were doing that all day long). Maybe one could extract the email addresses from that list and use a bulk email every 3 years to say "here is my new address" or something, if that address started getting too much spam. I haven't done that to know if it is practical from a social standpoint: maybe not. Arguably at some level, it could be all more trouble than it is worth. It's become habit for me now. I guess I get annoyed when someone requires my email then abuses it, or I start getting spam of a type that I know their PC was compromised. At least once I got some really offensive spam from an address I had used only at an online site whose services I appreciated, but whose IT I couldn't trust much, because they claimed they had notified all customers who were compromised in a reported breach, but they never notified me. That knowledge might not have benefited me enough to justify all this work, but I was really glad to block that email address in future. Once I skipped my usual careful process and instantly regretted it (fortunately that spam has since petered out). Or, I can now auto-delete emails from public mailing lists I haven't used in many years but spammers still do. I also have one "throwaway" address I re-use for all businesses where I don't care if we lose track of each other, and I can change it later if needed. That might be the sweet spot for some. edit: Having my own domains lets me do it however I want, and change over time.