As somebody with a mildly "unprofessional"-looking main Gmail address, I got foolishly excited over this, but turns out that FirstnameLastname, FLastname, and FMLastname are all taken. And both my...
As somebody with a mildly "unprofessional"-looking main Gmail address, I got foolishly excited over this, but turns out that FirstnameLastname, FLastname, and FMLastname are all taken. And both my abbreviated Lastname and birthyear have some, uh, unwanted implications. (Plus, adding numbers or other cruft just feels like recreating the original problem).
But maybe I just avoided the annoying problem where you constantly get email intended for someone with your same name.
I recently got new license plates for my car. Not custom, just whatever got pulled from the pile at the DMV. but part of the letter and numbers could be construed as something like "...Saxon...
I recently got new license plates for my car. Not custom, just whatever got pulled from the pile at the DMV. but part of the letter and numbers could be construed as something like "...Saxon 88..."
Now I'm terminally online, so that's really the only reason I saw it right away. But regardless, wtf...
I merely used the 8 character username I had since university in the 90s, and I get tons of random mail like this. I get some woman's Mazda vehicle service video reports, someone's wedding venue...
But maybe I just avoided the annoying problem where you constantly get email intended for someone with your same name.
I merely used the 8 character username I had since university in the 90s, and I get tons of random mail like this. I get some woman's Mazda vehicle service video reports, someone's wedding venue inquiries, tons of stuff from casinos for someone who lives in Vegas, and dental appointment reminders for someone in Alaska.
Sometimes I get flight itineraries. It's wild sometimes, if it wasn't so annoying.
why not get a domain and host it with zoho or whatever? domains are cheap, zoho is either free or cheap, a total breeze to set up, too. I have a catch-all junk mail domain and in the ~6 years I've...
why not get a domain and host it with zoho or whatever? domains are cheap, zoho is either free or cheap, a total breeze to set up, too. I have a catch-all junk mail domain and in the ~6 years I've had it running now, no spam. My main domain is just initials [at] firstlast.com -- but you can also have a catch-all for this and have different business cards for different occasions (e.g. hello@ for a site, firstLast for business cards, etc.)
I've been using my main domain for more professional occasions and to host my actual main inbox. My secondary domain is mainly for a catchall mail forwarding, so that I always have a new email for...
I've been using my main domain for more professional occasions and to host my actual main inbox.
My secondary domain is mainly for a catchall mail forwarding, so that I always have a new email for every service I use and can 100% filter out who the fuck gave my email to third parties or got hacked without telling anyone again.
the catch-all is the best! everybody should have one and I'm surprised how few technical people have one and even more surprised when technical people never thought of it as an option.
the catch-all is the best! everybody should have one and I'm surprised how few technical people have one and even more surprised when technical people never thought of it as an option.
I've been using initials at firstlast.com as my main address for 15 years too. But when I give it in person I feel it looks pretentious. I've been thinking of getting another random domain that's...
I've been using initials at firstlast.com as my main address for 15 years too. But when I give it in person I feel it looks pretentious. I've been thinking of getting another random domain that's not my name for this, but it's hard to find an attractive domain nowadays (easy to give, looks normal, looks generic).
I've got a bunch of domains -- lastna.me, a few .party, some funny ones. I've thought about having an absolutely meaningless domain that is just x000.com -- e.g. x406.com, x478.com, x480.com,...
I've got a bunch of domains -- lastna.me, a few .party, some funny ones. I've thought about having an absolutely meaningless domain that is just x000.com -- e.g. x406.com, x478.com, x480.com, x642.com, x712.com, x841.com, x930.com (these are all that is left) or really dazzle everybody with your ooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo domain (25 o's + 3 o's -- also available) :)
I haven't done anything with it yet, but I did manage to snag sparks.bet a while back. Someday I'll spin up a proper personal website there... someday....
I haven't done anything with it yet, but I did manage to snag sparks.bet a while back. Someday I'll spin up a proper personal website there... someday....
That’s a good one! I just do one-pagers —- I have nothing of value to share via a website. I just have a bunch of different things just for me one these sites. ( edit: cool domain name here )
That’s a good one! I just do one-pagers —- I have nothing of value to share via a website. I just have a bunch of different things just for me one these sites. ( edit: cool domain name here )
A bank employee once casually mentioned how surprised he was that I have a “clean” first-name.last-name@gmail.com address without numbers and whatnot. I’d didn’t realize how rare this has become....
A bank employee once casually mentioned how surprised he was that I have a “clean” first-name.last-name@gmail.com address without numbers and whatnot. I’d didn’t realize how rare this has become. Got it in like 2008.
Dunno about you, but this is actually a curse for me. A few technically un-savvy folks have FirstnameMLastname of my account where I use Firstname.Lastname. I get so much mail for these people. I...
Dunno about you, but this is actually a curse for me. A few technically un-savvy folks have FirstnameMLastname of my account where I use Firstname.Lastname.
I get so much mail for these people. I know details of their life that they would tell nobody. I know how much they pay for car insurance, when their apartments are getting work done, the new job relocation they've done. I know one of them is really bad with money and is desperately seeking predatory loans.
There isn't much to do about it. I have contacted one individual to kindly remind them to be careful giving an incorrect address, but you can't really stop information in the wild once it's done. I half-worry that telling these folks that they've messed up will be taken incorrectly as "hacking" or some such nonsense, so I have stopped trying at all.
I have one worse. I own a handful of domains. Various internet screennames, projects (launched or unlaunched), etc. I set these up with catch all inboxes and redirect to my main email address....
I have one worse.
I own a handful of domains. Various internet screennames, projects (launched or unlaunched), etc. I set these up with catch all inboxes and redirect to my main email address.
Anyway, some years back a decently sized medical supply company rebranded to a name that was close in both spelling and phonetically to a domain I had had for about ten years.
I had to turn the catch all off after a few years of emails from technically illiterate GPs or their secretaries going "Hey, do you have any updates on the catheters for Joe Bloggs, we need them ASAP", often with references to (or in one or two cases, attached records) of these people's medical history...
Yikes, but yeah that's generally why catch-alls are not recommended. It's also just a much larger surface area for spam. Better to let the server reject the message so it isn't flagged as a...
Yikes, but yeah that's generally why catch-alls are not recommended. It's also just a much larger surface area for spam. Better to let the server reject the message so it isn't flagged as a possible vector for more mail.
Damn. Happily, my name isn’t common/international enough for that, apparently. I went 10 years without spam, then registered for some nuts newsletter “ironically” (yea, stupid) and apparently they...
Damn. Happily, my name isn’t common/international enough for that, apparently. I went 10 years without spam, then registered for some nuts newsletter “ironically” (yea, stupid) and apparently they registered me for a bunch of third party trash news that does not have a proper unsubscribe. Never got an accidental email due to my name (once got an incorrect health insurance payment for name similarity though, but no email involved).
Occasionally you get people that think that's their address without realizing it isn't. There's a bunch of stories about people with more common names getting random people's email because the...
Occasionally you get people that think that's their address without realizing it isn't. There's a bunch of stories about people with more common names getting random people's email because the people giving the email believed they were giving their email.
I mean they're an American company and the product's largest user base is in the US. Makes sense to target the largest subsection of their user base and quickly iterate on any bugs that may appear...
I mean they're an American company and the product's largest user base is in the US. Makes sense to target the largest subsection of their user base and quickly iterate on any bugs that may appear before rolling it out worldwide. I imagine there's regulatory hurdles that would delay them launching elsewhere too.
Kinda wondering if I can just merge accounts together in this way, would make life a lot easier than having multiple tabs open for both my personal and my professional emails.
Kinda wondering if I can just merge accounts together in this way, would make life a lot easier than having multiple tabs open for both my personal and my professional emails.
As someone who ran their own business for a long time, preserve that separation between your work and professional emails. You've got to be able to put the work down at the end of the day, and...
As someone who ran their own business for a long time, preserve that separation between your work and professional emails. You've got to be able to put the work down at the end of the day, and having work email in your personal email box is a great way to never actually be not working.
To be fair when I say professional I just mean "the email i give out to people nowadays especially resumes" haha. I'm a corpo slave so I always get assigned emails for my work. But I get your point.
To be fair when I say professional I just mean "the email i give out to people nowadays especially resumes" haha. I'm a corpo slave so I always get assigned emails for my work. But I get your point.
Google is deprecating the POP3 "pull" access, but you can still forward from one account to the other, and then use the "send as" feature, which is essentially what you want to do here anyway I think.
Google is deprecating the POP3 "pull" access, but you can still forward from one account to the other, and then use the "send as" feature, which is essentially what you want to do here anyway I think.
Welp, gotta wait until I move back to the US to try this. I don't use my gmail for much, but it would be nice for it to at least match my other online stuff.
Welp, gotta wait until I move back to the US to try this. I don't use my gmail for much, but it would be nice for it to at least match my other online stuff.
My current email address is fine but I sometimes get mail intended for other people who apparently have the same name plus some numbers, and the sender forgets to add the numbers. I’ve gotten...
My current email address is fine but I sometimes get mail intended for other people who apparently have the same name plus some numbers, and the sender forgets to add the numbers. I’ve gotten legal documents and police reports and receipts and other private information in various languages. For a while I tried to warn the senders but that doesn’t help so I just delete the messages now.
Btw I’m sure your first thought is that everyone gets these things and they’re phishing attacks but this is different.
Great, I've always wanted first.last3465879876124598721@gmail.com I've had my Gmail account since 2004 but I made a mistake of picking my user name as my first name and my last initial. The...
I've had my Gmail account since 2004 but I made a mistake of picking my user name as my first name and my last initial. The problem with that, the last letter of my first name is the same letter as the first letter of my last name, made up example first name is Eric, Last name is Cruz, Gmail username is ericc. Every single time I have to give my email to someone verbally, over the phone for example, it ends up being a four minute conversation, my email is e r i c c at gmail dot com, and the person on the other end thinks I made a mistake so they enter it as eric at gmail dot com, or we go back and forth where they ask "are there two Cs at the end?" Yes there are. "Are you sure?"
And now that I can actually change it, because my name is short, the only options I have are eric989878676756454343353479626. This feature is pointless for me.
Gmail ignores dots in the user name. In your example, you could just use eric.c@gmail.com? May be it helps, maybe not. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en
As somebody with a mildly "unprofessional"-looking main Gmail address, I got foolishly excited over this, but turns out that FirstnameLastname, FLastname, and FMLastname are all taken. And both my abbreviated Lastname and birthyear have some, uh, unwanted implications. (Plus, adding numbers or other cruft just feels like recreating the original problem).
But maybe I just avoided the annoying problem where you constantly get email intended for someone with your same name.
Born in '88? You poor bastard...
I never knew 88 was problematic until I randomly got banned from a game for having it in my username.
For others who didn't know either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_neo-Nazism
I recently got new license plates for my car. Not custom, just whatever got pulled from the pile at the DMV. but part of the letter and numbers could be construed as something like "...Saxon 88..."
Now I'm terminally online, so that's really the only reason I saw it right away. But regardless, wtf...
One of my vehicle's plates has "KKX" in it, which is a little too close for comfort. X is just a slouching K, after all.
I merely used the 8 character username I had since university in the 90s, and I get tons of random mail like this. I get some woman's Mazda vehicle service video reports, someone's wedding venue inquiries, tons of stuff from casinos for someone who lives in Vegas, and dental appointment reminders for someone in Alaska.
Sometimes I get flight itineraries. It's wild sometimes, if it wasn't so annoying.
why not get a domain and host it with zoho or whatever? domains are cheap, zoho is either free or cheap, a total breeze to set up, too. I have a catch-all junk mail domain and in the ~6 years I've had it running now, no spam. My main domain is just initials [at] firstlast.com -- but you can also have a catch-all for this and have different business cards for different occasions (e.g. hello@ for a site, firstLast for business cards, etc.)
way classier than gmail. :)
I've been using my main domain for more professional occasions and to host my actual main inbox.
My secondary domain is mainly for a catchall mail forwarding, so that I always have a new email for every service I use and can 100% filter out who the fuck gave my email to third parties or got hacked without telling anyone again.
the catch-all is the best! everybody should have one and I'm surprised how few technical people have one and even more surprised when technical people never thought of it as an option.
I've been using initials at firstlast.com as my main address for 15 years too. But when I give it in person I feel it looks pretentious. I've been thinking of getting another random domain that's not my name for this, but it's hard to find an attractive domain nowadays (easy to give, looks normal, looks generic).
I've got a bunch of domains -- lastna.me, a few .party, some funny ones. I've thought about having an absolutely meaningless domain that is just x000.com -- e.g. x406.com, x478.com, x480.com, x642.com, x712.com, x841.com, x930.com (these are all that is left) or really dazzle everybody with your ooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo domain (25 o's + 3 o's -- also available) :)
I haven't done anything with it yet, but I did manage to snag sparks.bet a while back. Someday I'll spin up a proper personal website there... someday....
That’s a good one! I just do one-pagers —- I have nothing of value to share via a website. I just have a bunch of different things just for me one these sites. ( edit: cool domain name here )
A bank employee once casually mentioned how surprised he was that I have a “clean” first-name.last-name@gmail.com address without numbers and whatnot. I’d didn’t realize how rare this has become. Got it in like 2008.
Dunno about you, but this is actually a curse for me. A few technically un-savvy folks have FirstnameMLastname of my account where I use Firstname.Lastname.
I get so much mail for these people. I know details of their life that they would tell nobody. I know how much they pay for car insurance, when their apartments are getting work done, the new job relocation they've done. I know one of them is really bad with money and is desperately seeking predatory loans.
There isn't much to do about it. I have contacted one individual to kindly remind them to be careful giving an incorrect address, but you can't really stop information in the wild once it's done. I half-worry that telling these folks that they've messed up will be taken incorrectly as "hacking" or some such nonsense, so I have stopped trying at all.
I have one worse.
I own a handful of domains. Various internet screennames, projects (launched or unlaunched), etc. I set these up with catch all inboxes and redirect to my main email address.
Anyway, some years back a decently sized medical supply company rebranded to a name that was close in both spelling and phonetically to a domain I had had for about ten years.
I had to turn the catch all off after a few years of emails from technically illiterate GPs or their secretaries going "Hey, do you have any updates on the catheters for Joe Bloggs, we need them ASAP", often with references to (or in one or two cases, attached records) of these people's medical history...
Yikes, but yeah that's generally why catch-alls are not recommended. It's also just a much larger surface area for spam. Better to let the server reject the message so it isn't flagged as a possible vector for more mail.
I suspect about a quarter of my spam is this kind of stuff.
I've also been getting instagram account password reset emails, which is annoying.
Damn. Happily, my name isn’t common/international enough for that, apparently. I went 10 years without spam, then registered for some nuts newsletter “ironically” (yea, stupid) and apparently they registered me for a bunch of third party trash news that does not have a proper unsubscribe. Never got an accidental email due to my name (once got an incorrect health insurance payment for name similarity though, but no email involved).
Occasionally you get people that think that's their address without realizing it isn't. There's a bunch of stories about people with more common names getting random people's email because the people giving the email believed they were giving their email.
In typical Google fashion this feature applies only for the USA. I don't know why I'm surprised.
It was rolled out to India first actually.
I mean they're an American company and the product's largest user base is in the US. Makes sense to target the largest subsection of their user base and quickly iterate on any bugs that may appear before rolling it out worldwide. I imagine there's regulatory hurdles that would delay them launching elsewhere too.
Well sure that makes sense but Google has a history of launching services only in the USA as opposed to simply launching there first.
Kinda wondering if I can just merge accounts together in this way, would make life a lot easier than having multiple tabs open for both my personal and my professional emails.
As someone who ran their own business for a long time, preserve that separation between your work and professional emails. You've got to be able to put the work down at the end of the day, and having work email in your personal email box is a great way to never actually be not working.
To be fair when I say professional I just mean "the email i give out to people nowadays especially resumes" haha. I'm a corpo slave so I always get assigned emails for my work. But I get your point.
Google is deprecating the POP3 "pull" access, but you can still forward from one account to the other, and then use the "send as" feature, which is essentially what you want to do here anyway I think.
Welp, gotta wait until I move back to the US to try this. I don't use my gmail for much, but it would be nice for it to at least match my other online stuff.
My current email address is fine but I sometimes get mail intended for other people who apparently have the same name plus some numbers, and the sender forgets to add the numbers. I’ve gotten legal documents and police reports and receipts and other private information in various languages. For a while I tried to warn the senders but that doesn’t help so I just delete the messages now.
Btw I’m sure your first thought is that everyone gets these things and they’re phishing attacks but this is different.
Great, I've always wanted first.last3465879876124598721@gmail.com
I've had my Gmail account since 2004 but I made a mistake of picking my user name as my first name and my last initial. The problem with that, the last letter of my first name is the same letter as the first letter of my last name, made up example first name is Eric, Last name is Cruz, Gmail username is ericc. Every single time I have to give my email to someone verbally, over the phone for example, it ends up being a four minute conversation, my email is e r i c c at gmail dot com, and the person on the other end thinks I made a mistake so they enter it as eric at gmail dot com, or we go back and forth where they ask "are there two Cs at the end?" Yes there are. "Are you sure?"
And now that I can actually change it, because my name is short, the only options I have are eric989878676756454343353479626. This feature is pointless for me.
Gmail ignores dots in the user name. In your example, you could just use eric.c@gmail.com? May be it helps, maybe not.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en