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I have a first-initial-last-name gmail address. Over a period of years, it became basically unusable. A dozen or more people with the same first-initial-last-n
by yamtaddle 3y ago
I have a first-initial-last-name gmail address.
Over a period of years, it became basically unusable. A dozen or more people with the same first-initial-last-name have typo'd my email address into enough systems that the volume of crap coming in—some unsolicited stuff that gets through gmail's increasingly-useless spam filters, some technically solicited, just not by me—is high enough that keeping up with it's just not worth it.
- tombert 3y agoYeah, I have a similar problem; I have [firstname][lastname] as a Gmail, and I do get a good chunk of emails targeted to people who are not me. Fortunately my last name isn't terribly popular in the English-speaking world, and my first name (Thomas) isn't super popular in Germany, so it's not a huge deal. Still, it was annoying enough to where I eventually just bought [lastname].app and set up an email for that.