Mine is temporal at gmail. "Temporal" was my teenage gamer tag which I mostly stopped using decades ago, but it's been my gmail address for almost 20 years and

Mine is temporal at gmail. "Temporal" was my teenage gamer tag which I mostly stopped using decades ago, but it's been my gmail address for almost 20 years and changing it is not easy. The problem is, "temporal" happens to mean "temporary" in Spanish. As soon as Gmail became popular in the Spanish-speaking world, people started using it as a placeholder address. * Lots of people use it when creating throw-away accounts. * Sometimes companies use it as a placeholder when they don't know a customer's address. Multiple telecom companies in various countries have done this to me, sometimes populating hundreds of customers' accounts with my email address, such that I receive all of their phone bills, sometimes even with detailed call logs. * All kinds of students register for university classes using my address resulting in me getting tons of emails from professors. In many cases I could go drop their classes for them if I were evil enough. * Once a Colombian school gave my address admin access on their school-wide Zoom organization. The really annoying part about this is that Zoom didn't give me any way in the UI to leave the organization, so my account was attached to this school until I complained on Twitter and someone silently fixed it. * For the last couple months, someone has been scraping Shopify-backed web shops, entering my email address when prompted, putting things in their cart, and then abandoning it, such that I receive an email saying "Hey you left this thing in your cart! Do you still want to buy it?" The emails are always in Spanish, of course. I receive them from like 50 different web sites every day. (Luckily I was able to create a filter for certain Spanish words...) None of this stuff gets filtered as spam because it does not look like spam to gmail's filters. I have learned it's more productive to block addresses than to mark spam, but this annoyingly takes four clicks per email. I have begged Google to give me a way to filter by language but of course no one is listening. WIRED even wrote an article about it: https://www.wired.com/story/misplaced-emails-took-over-inbox-temporal/ https://www.wired.com/story/misplaced-emails-took-over-inbox... I know, I know, I need to change my email address and probably get off Gmail altogether. It's difficult because I have 20 years of history built around this address.