A History Of [my] Email
My very first email account was ianmac@bellatlantic.net, now defunct. This was a major victory for me since my brother was also intended to share the account. Somehow though, it was my name that was on there.
ianmac@bellatlantic.net was all over the web for some time as my primary email address dating back to 1998 or 1999. That was before spambots really innundated email addresses found online while trolling webpages. At about the same time I found out about hotmail, and of course I signed up for an account.
Sadly, some other Ian Mac-Something already had ianmac@hotmail.com, so I had to add a number. Hotmail's suggestion was 1981, my birth year, which I thought was the stupidest idea ever. So about the 47 attached to my internet handle and email addresses: there are three possible explanations, you decide which one is real. [a] 47 is a prime number and I dig prime numbers because you can't divide them, and since I'm kind of pathetic at math, not being able to divide a number is ok with me. [b] 47 is Renton's London apartment in Trainspotting. [c] Star Trek writers have a thing for the Number 47.
So in either case, after not getting ianmac@hotmail.com, and settling on ianmac47@hotmail.com, I pretty much decided I should go out and get ianmac47 for everything before someone else came along and stole if from me. [This is sort of like cybersquatting for email addresses]. So anyway, I got an ianmac47@yahoo.com, ianmac47 became my AIM screenname and so on.
Subsequently I lost my ianmac47@yahoo.com address password, so that account is no more. About this time, the hotmail account became my primary address and I started getting spam as I signed up for lots of free things online. I also phased out the bellatlantic account because hotmail stopped allowing me to use it to check POP mail from my other accounts.
When I started at Rutgers, they kindly gave me a free email address. Foolishly, I failed to acquire ianmac47@eden.rutgers.edu. Instead, I used ianmac@eden, much like my bellatlantic account. I used ianmac@eden and the hotmail account concurrently for a while. This is about the time I lost of the password to the yahoo account [and I believe there was another account someplace else also that was lost]. In either case, I didnt really like using the eden account because at the time I was only able to access it through telnet.
As it turns out, its a good thing I kept that hotmail account, because as these things happen, I was to graduate rutgers and lose that eden account. Its sort of silly when you think about it, that colleges terminate student accounts. It would be a great way for them to solicit money from students: they would always be able to keep track of them.
Anywway, when Rutgers took away my email address I hadnt used the account in a long time*. So then I started ianmacallen.com, and of course, have an email address, ianmac47 -at- ianmacallen.com. Its rarely used, but for a while I was using it for large attachments or files that were too big to keep for a long time on hotmail, which was continually overflowing, mostly with junk.
I finally started using hotmail's junk filter when I was getting about 100 pieces of spam a day. That's not alot by some poeple's standards but it was too much for me. And now when rutgers sends me solicitations for money, it usually winds up right in the trash can.
Then Gmail came along. And yes, ianmac47 works there too. Gmail was great because it can store large files, or lots of small files, which I send through cyberspace often. So why still use the hotmail account? Well, its been with me so long I can't let it go. Really, my account at ianmacallen.com is the one I'm letting go for now, since its been months since I checked it. In theory all of my blog posts go there, but again, I havent checked that in a while. Its also the catch-all for email sent at ianmacallen.com, which means random spam sent to -webmaster- at ianmacallen.com goes there.
Anyway, that's a brief history of my email accounts. Fun, right?
* There were a few mass emails sent out to all eden accounts. Some shitheads kept responding to be removed from the list. One of the last emails I sent from eden account was a reponse telling everyone on eden who had recieved the message that they shouldn't be hitting "Reply to All" to get off the list since we were all getting the emails demanding to be taken off the list. Then more idiots kept replying to all and saying they weren't, when clearly they were. That was about the time I stopped using eden entirely. RIP Ianmac@eden.rutgers.edu
ianmac@bellatlantic.net was all over the web for some time as my primary email address dating back to 1998 or 1999. That was before spambots really innundated email addresses found online while trolling webpages. At about the same time I found out about hotmail, and of course I signed up for an account.
Sadly, some other Ian Mac-Something already had ianmac@hotmail.com, so I had to add a number. Hotmail's suggestion was 1981, my birth year, which I thought was the stupidest idea ever. So about the 47 attached to my internet handle and email addresses: there are three possible explanations, you decide which one is real. [a] 47 is a prime number and I dig prime numbers because you can't divide them, and since I'm kind of pathetic at math, not being able to divide a number is ok with me. [b] 47 is Renton's London apartment in Trainspotting. [c] Star Trek writers have a thing for the Number 47.
So in either case, after not getting ianmac@hotmail.com, and settling on ianmac47@hotmail.com, I pretty much decided I should go out and get ianmac47 for everything before someone else came along and stole if from me. [This is sort of like cybersquatting for email addresses]. So anyway, I got an ianmac47@yahoo.com, ianmac47 became my AIM screenname and so on.
Subsequently I lost my ianmac47@yahoo.com address password, so that account is no more. About this time, the hotmail account became my primary address and I started getting spam as I signed up for lots of free things online. I also phased out the bellatlantic account because hotmail stopped allowing me to use it to check POP mail from my other accounts.
When I started at Rutgers, they kindly gave me a free email address. Foolishly, I failed to acquire ianmac47@eden.rutgers.edu. Instead, I used ianmac@eden, much like my bellatlantic account. I used ianmac@eden and the hotmail account concurrently for a while. This is about the time I lost of the password to the yahoo account [and I believe there was another account someplace else also that was lost]. In either case, I didnt really like using the eden account because at the time I was only able to access it through telnet.
As it turns out, its a good thing I kept that hotmail account, because as these things happen, I was to graduate rutgers and lose that eden account. Its sort of silly when you think about it, that colleges terminate student accounts. It would be a great way for them to solicit money from students: they would always be able to keep track of them.
Anywway, when Rutgers took away my email address I hadnt used the account in a long time*. So then I started ianmacallen.com, and of course, have an email address, ianmac47 -at- ianmacallen.com. Its rarely used, but for a while I was using it for large attachments or files that were too big to keep for a long time on hotmail, which was continually overflowing, mostly with junk.
I finally started using hotmail's junk filter when I was getting about 100 pieces of spam a day. That's not alot by some poeple's standards but it was too much for me. And now when rutgers sends me solicitations for money, it usually winds up right in the trash can.
Then Gmail came along. And yes, ianmac47 works there too. Gmail was great because it can store large files, or lots of small files, which I send through cyberspace often. So why still use the hotmail account? Well, its been with me so long I can't let it go. Really, my account at ianmacallen.com is the one I'm letting go for now, since its been months since I checked it. In theory all of my blog posts go there, but again, I havent checked that in a while. Its also the catch-all for email sent at ianmacallen.com, which means random spam sent to -webmaster- at ianmacallen.com goes there.
Anyway, that's a brief history of my email accounts. Fun, right?
* There were a few mass emails sent out to all eden accounts. Some shitheads kept responding to be removed from the list. One of the last emails I sent from eden account was a reponse telling everyone on eden who had recieved the message that they shouldn't be hitting "Reply to All" to get off the list since we were all getting the emails demanding to be taken off the list. Then more idiots kept replying to all and saying they weren't, when clearly they were. That was about the time I stopped using eden entirely. RIP Ianmac@eden.rutgers.edu
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Hi Ian, I am that other Ian that has ianmac@hotmail.com. I just happened to google my email address to see what came up, and found your blog.
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