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@mindym (978)
United States
May 29, 2011 3:02pm CST
When signing up for certain online accounts, such as when you can receive free samples, do you use a separate e-mail account for all the spam to go to? I do because I do not want it going to my personal account, even if it winds up in the spam folder. It is unbelievable how much e-mail I get there. I occasionally check this spam account just for kicks.
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@swtpareek (650)
• United States
31 May 11
I used to have a single account until I got the bombardments of all the spams out there. Then on I have made around 2-3 new email ids. One of them is for only official mails. I don't even go and visit the spam mails anymore since they are full of rubbish mails mostly. They just get deleted every one month or so, so I don't clean them even.
@mindym (978)
• United States
31 May 11
It's amazing how much spam one can receive, isn't it? It is helpful that they get deleted automatically every 30 days or so, so then you don't have to waste your time doing it.
• Netherlands
30 May 11
Yep I have a seperate e-mail account for most of the spam. It get's about 200 emails per day from the same recipient :-)
@mindym (978)
• United States
30 May 11
Yikes! That's A LOT of e-mails, especially from the same recipient. I don't even get that many personal e-mails in a day. I'm glad you have a spam account!
@youless (112496)
• Guangzhou, China
30 May 11
I do the same like you. I have one main email for contact others. It is important and I don't want to receive lots of rubbish emails everyday. So I also sign up some email accounts when I sign up new websites. I will leave one of these email accounts because it doesn't matter. I love China
@himzey (1321)
• India
29 May 11
Hi mindym ! Yeah, that certainly is what I have been doing for past couple of months. I have a separate e-mail id, which I use at the time of signing in to those suspicious and troublesome sites, as they keep buzzing me with their idiotic promotional schemes; as if I am committing a sin by not responding to them. Every day there is a mail titled- "himzey, last chance..." or "we have saved a special place place for you..", in my account. One should never let an official email id of his to be troubled with those unwanted newsletters and schemes because they often cross their limits, sending 3-4 spam mails daily into your account. Its really frustrating, but what else can be done. Happy mylotting. :)
• United States
29 May 11
Oh yes I do have dedicated emails for online ventures versus personal. I use to be a GPT user and quickly learned the importance and necessity of having separate email addys. Therefore, if anything seems too new and or fishy I will use my spam one so that I do not get the hundreds of spams into my personal one. If I like the site and can entrust there will be no spam then I will change it to my personal email address. As you I am amazed as to the tons of spams that come in daily.
@mindym (978)
• United States
30 May 11
You definitely have to be smart and aware about what you are signing up for, which sounds like you are.
@Jessi_T (379)
• United States
29 May 11
Yes I do use a different email for everything I do just about in fact I have close to 30 different email addy's including 2 I have had for the past 14 years or so since high-school. I don't check them often but I sure wouldn't give a personal email for samples or survey's etc etc etc...
@mindym (978)
• United States
30 May 11
WOW! That's a lot of e-mail addys. How do you remember them all?
@lou_is (665)
• India
30 May 11
Yes i do have more than one mail id mainly because of the above reason that you have mentioned. If i register to any site then sure there will be possibility of getting huge mails from that site so for precaution i use to register those sites with my other email accounts and i will keep one email account for only business purpose. Few sites says that we need to add there email id into our contact list but i won't do that. Because if i add then it will come into Inbox, so better those non important email should go to Spam or junk box so that i can delete it whenever i want without reading them.