Multiple Email Ids of same
person
Many of my contacts have more
than one Email Id from service providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. When I
initiate a message for such persons I am in a dilemma as which one to choose. Gmail
suggests all addresses to choose! When the message is important, I mark it to
more than one ID to ensure receipt / response.
Replying to an email from multiple IDs is no issue, as REPLY button
always helps you.
Searching email from a person
with multiple email ids is cumbersome. You can not guess from which address you
got it. Further searching mail is made difficult by users changing the subject
line often. But, sticking to same subject line increases the thread length so
much that searching within the thread is difficult. Moreover, users do not
stick to the discipline of deleting unwanted parts in ‘replied-to’ messages and
length of each post keeps increasing like Hanuman’s tail!
Labels are a good way to
manage searching. However, when I looked into my labels, I found I had allotted
/ created labels indiscriminately, more than half of which I can not now guess
what they mean!
Why do people have multiple
Email addresses? What are the different purposes they are put to use? Do they
see all incoming mail, though sent to different IDs, in one consolidated inbox?
How do they ensure that they are spammed, the messages are not duplicated,
their messages go without action required to be taken?
I too have three or four Email
IDs. Two only are used – one primary the other one for ‘recovery’ of forgotten
/ lost password etc. While writing this
story I discovered a few that I never used after creation and I do not know how
to delete those accounts!
There are many sites that
insist on registering yourself with your email id. Usually, such sites land you
in furtherance of spam or misuse of your mail id. Hence, I use disposable email
Ids. I can conveniently forget about them after exploring the site for whatever
is worth.
What are your suggestions for
alleviating these problems?
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