How do you pick your e-mail addresses?

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  1. popowich

    popowich EQ Forum Admin Staff Member

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    Hello,

    What would you do if you wanted to sign up for a new e-mail address, but the address that you wanted was not available? Would you create an alternate or similar e-mail address, or refuse to use that particular e-mail service?

    -Raymond
     


    popowich, Dec 4, 2008
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  2. Ashley

    Ashley New Email

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    i would just maybe put a capital at the start or just put in a _ or something similar
     

    Ashley, Dec 4, 2008
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    Big Dan EQ Forum Moderator Staff Member

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    I'm kind of anal about that I like all my handles to be the same across different networks, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc but now a days I don't change them that often anymore so I just add an underscore or a couple of numbers that mean something to me after the words.

    For the most part I just use domain based emails forwarded into Gmail. If I own the domain, I can guarantee the handle I want is always available. ;)
     
    Big Dan, Dec 4, 2008
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    fortunetly my name is unique enough that if I can't have yukon then first initial last name works fine ... I don't have any emails that haven't fit that scheme, nor tried anywhere that it was already taken by anyone other than me (occasionally had dups for specific reasons: a...@yahoo.com a....cell@yahoo.com a....home@yahoo.com etc.
     

    yukon, Dec 11, 2008
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