"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 7/5/2014 5:00 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 7/4/2014 2:51 PM, sf wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:06:51 -1000, dsi1
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Boy, this is confusing... so what you're saying is that posters like
>>>>> you
>>>>> should use gmail addresses? How does that work?
>>>>
>>>> Easy. You can forward your gmail to what you use as your regular
>>>> email address. If an address shifting stalker or spammer starts to
>>>> bother you, just untick the box to forward email to your main address.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That seems quite involved. What I like to do is not give out any address
>>> on Usenet. I thought that's what everybody did. Perhaps I'm paranoid?
>>
>> I used to always have my real address on usenet and when I changed
>> newsservers, for some reason I can't remember I had to change the last
>> bit
>> to 'invalid' If anyone asks me though I will tell them what to change
>> that
>> to, as you might have seen me do here. It is as easy to filter someone
>> via
>> email as it is on usenet.
>>
> Exactly, Ophelia. I see no reason to jump through hoops with multiple
> email addresses. And why would you then forward the ones from the
> "unused" email box to your real email? It's easy enough to filter spam
> and delete unwanted emails.

I do have a yahoo account but it is rarely used. I will use it if I enter a
contest or send for a free sample if I fear that it might generate spam. I
mainly got it so that I could continue to get email when we were moving
here. I had given up my Redshift account and had not gotten an ISP here.
And we had no Smartphones yet at that point in time but I did have
occasional access to computers.