From: Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@...>
Date: 2005-10-25T12:01:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT} email addrs - was: Re: [Ruby-Talk] can we add a tag like this to all the mail at the ruby talk mail server(s)?

On 10/24/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> Yohanes Santoso wrote:
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > I feel sad that email addresses in this age of cyberspace are still
> > treated as if it is as expensive as a phone number. They are cheap,
> > dirt cheap.
> >
> > Imagine this: work@yourname.yourdomain, friend@yourname.yourdomain,
> > ruby-talk@yourname.yourdomain, newegg@yourname.yourdomain.
> >
> > If your organisation is still in the backwater, giving you only one
> > email address, instead of a sub-domain, that's OK. That's just for
> > work, right?
> >
> > OTOH, for your personal life, you can get a subdomain for free from
> > various dyndns providers, and start churning out email addresses.
> >
> > I am doing this. And I notice one other member in the this mailing
> > list is also doing this. Come on, we are geeks here. Revolution starts
> > from us outwards.
>
> I like the way you think, Yohanes. But the problemn is: How do you then
> manage all of those email accounts? When you look for something that
> someone mailed you, how do you ever find it?
>
>
> Hal

I create new email aliases for every store I shop at, and every survey
I fill out.  Easy to track where they sell the addresses to.  I have
all of them forward to my main address that I check with thunderbird.

OTOH, I like gmail for reading news groups, so I don't use my vanity
domain there.

Regards,
Jason
http://blog.casey-sweat.us/