How many different email addresses do you have? (with poll)
 

How many different email addresses do you have?

What do you use them for?

I have at least 10 email addresses.
- One is my work address.
- Another is a lifetime email address that I use as a forwarding address to my current address.
- I use another for signup for crap on the internet so that it gets the spam instead of my other addresses.
- I have several others for anonimity purposes.
- Others I have setup for specific purposes like a class project a long time ago. I know use this email for completely different purposes now (my TFP email address).

I am just always amazed at people who have only one email address. I can't see my you would not have more than one.

I am guessing that people on TFP are similar to me and have several addresses and that the people who have only one address don't know what TFP or a forum is and probably have an @aol.com address.

This pole will help us determine this.

Interesting. There four votes at this point and no comments.

Until now, I hadn't really counted my email accounts. I originally started with my main one and one web-based account. Over time I have added others included 2 extras through my ISP.

My main account is used only when I am dealing with friends, family and very specific businesses. I tend to use the web-based ones when I have to give an email address to a web-site that I don't do business with. I have used similar criteria for using my others. For example, I have one that I use with all businesses that I use for online ordering. The amazing thing is that one gets the least spam.

I think that as far back as I can remember I always had more than one (obviously of my first two I got one before the other, but not much before).

I guess a few other questions that come up are:
- Are they all setup up with different info (name, address,...) or do some have the same info?
- Do you use the same passwords or do each have different passwords?
- How do you remember the different passwords?

I only have 6, that I can remember. I've set up and deleted so many Yahoo accounts, I can't keep track. Those are all for internet sign-up crap. Once all the mortgage and donkey pr0n fills my inbox, I close the account.

Other than that, 1 for work, 1 for lifetime forwarding from my university, and a couple hotmail accounts.

two at work - one internet and one intranet

three at home

too many. One for every hobby, that put me at or just above the 10 spot.

4, one for work, one for friends, and two that have ridiculous security that i use when buying online or registering for something...

I have countless e-mail addresses sitting around, most of which are probably deleted off their respective sites by now. So, really, I have 2 - one that I use when I want to give my e-mail address, and one that I use when I don't. I keep a tight lock on my e-mail so I get no spam and I only check the other one every month or so to clear it out and keep it active,

I have 4. My personal one that I have only shared with friends. My old one that got over run with spam that I rarely use. And 2 I set up for future use, in case the dreaded spam monsters get hold of my main email addy.

I have two. But I only use one. The other one alpha phi set up for me but spelled atropos wrong and I haven't changed it. So I don't use it. I'm just used to the one I have now.

I have two...but rarely use one of them.

1 for work
2 for personal use
2 for anonimity/collecting spam

I have a lot, for all different occasions. Anti spam, just for fun, main, secondary the whole bit. Only one other person has all my email address, just in case I forget.

It's a pain in the ass to remember to check all of them

just one for me i have trouble rembering it as is

I have 6 e-mail addresses, 1 for work, 1 which just forwards my e-mails, 1 from my isp, 2 for junk mail, and 1 which is not in use but i keep active as a spare.

I only check 3 of these accounts on a regular basis

1 - that i check all the time, no spam, just emails from a few people and such.
2 - 2 yahoo accts, used to use often, now just check it enough so it doesn't get cancelled.
3 - a hotmail account that i use with MSN Messenger.

so, that's 4. :)

2

5
1 at work and 4 personals.
However, I only use my main account one at home for the most part. Maybe once a month at best I'll pop in and take a look see at the other 3. Never nothing there of interest....

I have 6

--I have one for lifetime forwarding from my college...
--One for work...
--One from my ISP...
--A Hotmail one that most of my friends actually use...
--A Yahoo one for when I buy stuff on the internet and have to give an address. This one is just to collect all the junk mail.
--A fake Excite one that I use to write my ex-girlfriend on. I have pretended to be an old friend of hers for years, and I use it to check up on her... :)

4

3 official ones and 1 address that the spam gets sent to.

Seven:
- College
- Friends
- Business
- Spam
- ISP default
- Work
- Website

1 hotmail
1 bigfoot
2 yahoo
2 SBC
3 work
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9

I only use two, but I'm sure I have at least 4 active e-mail addresses from attending 2 schools and excite and stuff.

1 for work
2 yahoo for general
1 yahoo for anominity (?sp)
1 hotmail that I've had forever
1 my wife and I share

One work/personal one which I closely guard.
One major online one for most other things (online shopping, site registrations)
One anonymous online
several (probably dead) ones online ones that got to clogged with spam.

I only have 2 but i don't use either of them all that much.

Far too many. I'm a sys admin so I have many at work. I also have my own mail server at home and have many set up there to keep accounts straight. Easy to delete when the spam gets too overwhelming.

I have home, work, and two free ones that I use to register on to places so I dont get spammed with junk mail.

hotmail
C4
work
home

so that makes 4 . . .

I currently only have 2. My old email address that I use for signing up for crap, and my current one, but I'm probably gonna make a new one, because I get too much spam on my current one. Not cool.

only 2, work and home.

I think I have 5. Maybe one or two others that I have forgotten about though.

I don't understand how people could have, and use, 10 or more. It's just...odd.

i have more than 10. i registered a domain to use just for e-mail. whenever i sign up for something and i need to guve an e-mail address i create an address just for that. for example staples@ or bestbuy@. that way i can track what's being done with an address by vendor.

Just one...but I dont do too many signups, so spams not to bad.

right there in the middle

we have six...

one for each kid

one for the wife

three for me and my crap.