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I can easily imagine circumstances in which a user might not be able to access the account for months at a time.
One of my brothers didn't use his e-mail (on another service) for many months because he was in a coma and then in a nursing home for rehabilitation. It was some months after he got back home that he was able to return to using e-mail.
Another potential problem that could leave one unable to access e-mail for a while would be strokes or heart attacks.
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I do something like this on a company account hosted elsewhere. My primary username is a very obscure word. No email ever goes out with that username, but with the alias for the account.
My main reason for doing this is so that if I start getting lots of spam at that address, I can set up and start using a new alias for any new e-mail and set the old alias to only accept e-mail to those specific users I expect to get e-mail from.
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I was here tosuggest the same thing. Some of us have always preferred bottom posting to top posting. It is especially useful for an email in which we are responding to individual points. Top posting only really works when you want to respond to one simple point.
K: Aliases are great for temporary addresses. Never give out the actual address, just give out the aliases. Then those aliases work as perfect temporary measures that could be deleted, I hope.
This. It makes filtering out the e-mail by folders and/or tags much, much, much easier.
I'm not sure how to send an e-mail with a new alias, though. Is that possible? If I remember correctly, when we receive an e-mail at an alias, we can reply to it and it goes out with that alias.