Comments on: Your E-Mail Address Has a Stigma Attached to It

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:16:45 +0000

I suppose it is a little odd to see an AOL email address, but really, why should anyone care what email provider people use? And I think AOL has provided high-speed internet access for quite some time now. But anyway, how is using dialup access a sign of bad judgment? You don’t know their situation (perhaps they currently live in an area that doesn’t have access to high-speed internet), or perhaps they’re sticking with dialup to save money. Unless their home internet service will affect their job performance, why should you care?

By: Joanne

Joanne — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:51:59 +0000

You’re dead on Jane! I found out that my personal email which I thought (and still do) is clever – had the word “bed” in it. Company security software may delete my email thinking it is spam. I had to switch email addresses.

Keep up the good work!

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:38:42 +0000

For years….for years.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:48:23 +0000

AOL e-mail has been free for quite some time.

By: David Banner

David Banner — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:47:02 +0000

Why would gmail be ok but not Yahoo mail? Google may be the number 1 search engine but Yahoo is still the number 1 website hands-down!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=56

Aol is understandable but Yahoo? Doesn’t compute!

By: EJ

EJ — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:17:17 +0000

Most university alumni associations offer an alumni email address (yourname@yourschoolalumni.org, yourname@alumni.yourschool.edu, or similar). You’re pretty much guaranteed to get your name or at least something close to your name (as opposed to on gmail or yahoo where you’d be johnsmith99999) and there’s nothing not respectable about the domain name.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:36:36 +0000

Some alumni associations offer lifetime email forwarding. You get an @SomeCollege address and all mail sent to that address is forwarded anywhere you like. That should knock a few years off your perceived age.

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:04:30 +0000

I totally agree that aol email addresses raise eyebrows. It’s not that it gives away an age, per se, but it makes me question your judgment? Are you really paying AOl for ISP service in this day and age? I can hear the modem cranking up now!!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:24:11 +0000

Its easy to create your own domain and then forward all your e mail accounts to that new account. That way you are only checking 1 account and you dont have to send out a mass e mail telling the world you changed your e mail address. I have 1 main e mail account and then 3 others that I have used in the past for things (grad school, etc) that I occasionally still get mail on. This way I dont have to check 4 e mail accounts all the time. I use Gmail as my main e mail because it works best with my Blackberry.