I hate it so much. I hate dealing with it. I hate administrating it. I hate everything about it. I have at least 3 emails personally, each one a fucking disaster just by simply existing.
One I've abandoned, but it remains forwarding to my primary one in the event I find something that still is attached to it (just yesterday, I realized a service I use every day still had this email as the primary). The other one I pay for through Google, but because I decided to do something "fun" with the domain address, I can't rely on it because the TLD is sometimes block-listed by systems for having a "bad reputation".
I don't want to manage any more email addresses. It takes almost no time at all for the inboxes to be overburdened with spam. Some websites operate an allow list for acceptable email domains, basically locking you into a centralized mail system. I've resorted to using something akin to Mozilla Relay to act as an email condom, but even their domain address is blocked by some services.
Important shit is regularly lost in the fucking fire hose of bull shit. I've resorted to attempting to script my way out of inbox hell in Google. I modified a script that takes advantage of the "one click unsubscribe" protocol many sites use, but bad actors or actors who don't care simply do not implement this. Even still, it clutters my inbox with otherwise useless labels.
The fact that email systems were not designed to operate on a handshake type system, where your inbox or your mail server is sent a kind of pairing request from a potential sender, and you can either reject or accept those senders up front, shows how little forethought was actually put into what these systems look like at scale.
The nerds who built these systems to send messages to their nerd friends in other universities over ARPNET never once considered that every day dickheads and large corporations would eventually use these systems to inundate you with dick pill ads and SSN phishing scams. Now, every day, we sift through the wreckage of their short-sightedness.
There are probably services out there that can "aid" in easing the management of the bullshit cannon that is this system, but that's just one more dickhead I have to put between me and a clean inbox where I don't miss some important document or message because it's swimming in a piss pool of deals and scams being sent to me as a result of having this email address for nearly 20 years (
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