Last time I started a yahoo account was to create this cellar title.
I do find myself using it for some things that I don't want associated with my regular email address.
My Homeowners assn crap, Flickr, etc.

And get this:

I only wanted a disposable email account so I could make a new StumbleUpon account, since you can't stumble anonymously anymore.

What do you folks use for a disposable/not-used-for-anythng-else email? Hopefully something that doesn't require a family history, or biography of my life.

I have four yahoo accounts and two gmails, not counting the ones I manage for my kids and father. All are used for slightly different stuff.

Well, another Yahoo account is definitely out the fucking window at this point.

I expect Gmail will want my life story, too?

With a Gmail account, there's no need to have a bogus/disposable email box. I use my "regular" address for everything, and Gmail is very good at filtering promotional email into the "Promotions" tab, and filtering spam into the spam box.

2nded

The only time I get emails from friends to the effect of, "If you get an email from me that has x in the subject line don't open it..." is when they have Yahoo accounts.

Gmail for everything on the web, Verizon account for personal shit. Thanks to the Gmail account, the Verizon account has received 3 spam emails in 4.5 years. I try hard to keep it that way.

My first gmail account was one I sort of intended to switch over to permanently at the time, but I chose firstnamelastname, and as I've detailed here before, it is absolutely stunning how much crap I get for other people with my same name.* I know Yahoo will continue losing respect as time goes on, just like I audibly laugh at someone with an AOL email address now, so sometime in the next 5 years or so I'll probably start yet another new gmail account with a more distinct version of my name, and switch major personal stuff to that.

*Along these same lines, I was recently instructed to make a website dedicated to my writing separate from my recipe website, except myname.com was already taken, and by someone who also claims to be a writer, no less. This being a major problem from a branding perspective (I am informed,) I instead went with www.JenniferIsACommonName.com. I thought it was funny, my agent thought it was suitably memorable, my mother and brother think it's completely stupid to the point that my mother is considering reserving the URL of my full name for when I "come to my senses." I think she's always felt insulted that I don't especially like my name. :)

It does seem to describe you though.

Jennifer = Guinevere :mg: Well damn, that explains a lot.

Jennifer = "white enchantress" :yesnod:

If I lived in the Philippines I'd never get to leave jail.

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There was a thing on here awhile back about how the police in the Philippines don't give a damn if they have the right guy; if John Smith committed the crime, and you are a John Smith, you are going to jail. This had led to a trend of parents giving their children more and more unique names, like Superman Smith, Meatballs Smith, Cockadoodledoo Smith, etc.