using email addresses like a pro
What’s the common strategy here that most folks use? One main email address for personal use, one for business, and one that’s used to signup for various web services.
That’s not a terrible strategy at all, but it’s not the best either. Your throwaway address really must be just that. Because people are free to abuse it. You cannot know who it was that’s responsible, and you cannot shut it down, because you depend on that address for so many sites.
Better solution? Register another domain, get the .net version of the main domain you usually use. I say use a new domain because then you can just use it only for email aliases. Create a new alias for EVERY website and service you signup for. Use the name of the site or service, like amazon@yourdomainname.net or foomagazine.com@yourdomain.net. You’ll find that fewer folks will send you spam because you know where it came from! Even after years have passed and you start getting spam, you can simply delete that address. Problem solved!