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Re: Hokie post# 16826

Thursday, 11/13/2008 11:43:19 AM

Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:43:19 AM

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I thought I would weigh in on the email address issue with my own experience.
I have had 3 different consulting companies I have worked through over the past 15 years or so. The first 2 I own and the last is a company I am doing work for.
I also just started a new "business" which at this point is more of a hobby, but I hope to switch to as my main business as I get into retirement age.
All together (since I am my own webmaster for my own businesses) I have 9 email "entities".
3 as 'webmaster@company.com'
3 as 'info@company.com'
3 as 'myname@company.com'

I also have 2 hotmail accounts I use for things like ebay & paypal outside of my "Company" emails.
This is simply Way Too much to keep track of for all kinds of practical reasons and when I tried keeping them all separate, it just got too confusing and I would sometimes miss things.

I now have gone back to my Original website email address for everything and have placed forwarding rules at the Hosting site on each email address I created and all my email gets forwarded to that one account. I use Outlook for email and have rules to parse all the email out to separate folders based on where it came from.
I also only typically give out that one email address to everyone now to make my life easier.
Now if someone goes to one of my websites and sends me something to my "Contact Us' webpage, it simply forwards the email to my one account and I keep them all stored in Outlook.

Anthony Mellone has had similar circumstances having different companies with different potential email addresses, so I personally do not find it problem that he simply keeps the one he started with. Perhaps he does have email addresses with the others and they just forward to the one. I have not actually tried this but it seems reasonable.
For me, I do not care what email address anyone uses, as long as I have one that works.
All JMHO and GTLA in this one...

Cheers,
ThegoodlifeGeo