Somewhat related, and I’m totally embarrassed admitting it, but I have over twenty different e-mail accounts (don’t ask). I was just too lazy to sort out and clean up, so now I have to filter out an incredible amount of spam (done mostly automatically, but it needs to be sifted anyways for things deleted by accident) until I take a month out, filter the useful stuff that still comes into many of those accounts and notify the one trillion people, companies, newsletter publishers etc. to now use a different account.

In real life, I’m far from being messy, but if Freud were still alive today, he could have a field day with my online behaviour and persona.

Headache material, totally.

You’ve made me feel better today, Volkher. There really is someone who has more email accounts than I do (did)! When I switched from comcast to verizon last year, I tallied up my total and it came in at 15 email accounts. It’s one of those things where they gradually get added over time until there is way too much to manage. Since I had to submit changes of address for comcast, I decided to delete several other email accounts and submit changes of address for stuff coming into those at the same time. (I’m down to 7 email accounts now.)

It took me three days to do it, so, yeah, it’s a really tedious and time consuming task. Now I have almost everything forwarded and filtered into two gmail accounts (one for this domain/personal email and one for everything else)—which makes managing email a lot easier and keeps the gmail addresses remarkably free of spam. (I *so* love gmail!) The only two addresses that give me a ton of spam are the comcast account (I don’t forward that mail any longer) and a domain email account. I think the latter was listed on a couple of blog comments somewhere at some time where it was harvested by the ubiquitous spambots. It doesn’t take long for an email address to become the property of every spam outfit in the universe.

LOL, gosh, now you are going to make me have to think about this..... um how many do I have? Four that I use daily, and a few that I have a hard time remembering either the log on name or passwords to lol. If I could remember my comcast password I would check to see if my account is still there!