The Shays-Meehan Spam Finance Bill

[Luis Villa]

Heh. But how many accounts do you send email from? I have something like
6 different accounts, but they all end up pointing at the same place,
and whether I'm physical @ duke.edu, tieguy.org, or ximian.com, to my
friends and family* they all appear to be basically one transparent
account, no matter whether they send to
luis@[tieguy.org|ximian.com|alumni.duke.edu]. Am I unusual in this?
Luis

*with one exception

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:40, Elias Sinderson wrote:
> Unfortunately an earlier email I wrote up on this was munched by the mail
> system and never made it through. Thankfully this list has enough
> like-minded and bright people that the issues I brought up have since been
> mentioned by others. At any rate, I just wanted to comment that I think
> your estimate of 95-99% is probably on the high end. I actually use several
> IMAP accounts: school, work, personal and the secret, anonymous, paranoid,
> spam-magnet, not-associated-with-me-in-any-way-what-so-ever-account that I
> use for online ordering, rabid flames, etc. So now you can count three
> people you know in this category....  ;-)
> 
>     E
> 
> 
> Luis Villa wrote:
> 
> >
> > You're over-engineering things, here. 95% of the population sticks with
> > one email address and with one email client. And the other 5% likely has
> > other options, anyway. True, this is getting less and less true
> > (particularly wrt cellphones) but at the moment I wouldn't at all be
> > surprised if it is even more than 95%- more like 99%. There are only two
> > people I know who regularly switch email addresses between more than two
> > accounts, and one of them is forced to because she is in Africa and can
> > only access one account in each village/town she visits.
> >
> > Luis
> >
> > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
> 
> 
> 
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