at that point (and probably about 10 years ago) i'd have made a different email address on a domain name i own. gmail, for instance, shows off how awful google

at that point (and probably about 10 years ago) i'd have made a different email address on a domain name i own. gmail, for instance, shows off how awful google is if you stop relying on it but open it fairly often. I don't think i've received any non-automated emails on my gmail account in over a year, but now all of the tabs are chock full of junk, aliexpress, spam, aliexpress, scams, aliexpress... I lucked out on fastmail grandfathering me in to the $5/yr plan that allows you a single MX domain endpoint, so i have any-email-i-want@mydom.ain for around $20/year including taxes, DNS, and domain registration.