choosing your email addresses

I'm in the process of turning off my old email addresses and
establishing just two new ones: one public and one private. I've
already started to use the following as my public email address:

 nm-reverse-spam-filter @ ii.deflexion.com

But I'm not sure how much I like it and I'm still contemplating
what to use for my private email address. I'm thinking that I'll
use:

 something @ spam.deflexion.com


The way I came up with these addresses was to use the suggestions
that I give on my IMAP Service Providers page in this section:

 <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/imap/isps/#chooseID>

Here are the especially relevant reasons:


 * always include the string "spam" in an address to confuse the
   spammers. I discuss why this confuses them at the URL above.

 * always use  @subdomain.deflexion.com and bounce all mail sent
   to [email protected] (again to confuse the spammers and
   make it harder for them to guess email addresses).

 * make it hard to figure out the private address from the public
   address.

 * Some people will look at the web page http://subdomain.deflexion.com
   and this page should be meaningful.

	* every email address will eventually get into the hands of
			spammers so it's not very useful to have a lot of different
   email address.

 * make the public address long and a pain to type because this
   should mainly be used by automated systems (mailing lists, etc)

 * make the private email address easy to type and easy to
   remember so that means that the "something" part should be
   short and easy for people who know me to remember.


I think that choosing your email addresses is a very small part of
solving the email overload problem, but I think it's worth
discussing and I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts about
this.

Please post your thoughts here.
Thanks,
Nancy

-- 
Nancy McGough
Infinite Ink                              Log and Discussion
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