email accounts

[rudgie]

Is it usual to have several email accounts and do you keep some for special things

[SheepShagger]

no

[Fay Mousse]

I have several - one for friends and family; one for each of my businesses; one for sites such as this and one for those sites that ask for an email address when I have no intention of going back to them.

Keeps the spam down.

[rojash]

I have 22, twenty of which are related to work, and two are personal.

[Schutzengel]

How do you do that. Please.

[Buenchico]

I usually set up a new account for each site or service that I subscribe to. I've currently got only 5 accounts but I've had over 100.

Using different account means that, if one starts getting spammed, it can be deleted (and replaced with a new account for the same purpose) without having to notify lots of different people about a change of email address.

It's never a good idea to use an ISP-based email account, because you'll have problems if you want to change your ISP.

If you're looking for somewhere to get extra email accounts which can be used with a mail client (such as Outlook Express or Windows Mail) as well as through web access, try Gawab. See paragraph 3, et seq, of my post here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Inte rnet/Question407429.html

Chris

[edward7897]

Using different account means that, if one starts getting spammed, it can be deleted and replaced with a new account for the same purpose without having to notify lots of different people about a change of email address.

[tamborine]

lots of email accounts from one computer doesn't work for me, without deleting cookies. Surely Fay (ha ha) you dont work lots of computers simultaneously?

nb, I do hate spelling soooo correctly continuously, am worse than a dictionary - sorry :(