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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the nerds who built this stuff used unencrypted telnet sessions they had no idea what was coming lol
Fucking telnet.
hi yeah as someone who could vote when the eternal September began I assure you 95% or more of the nerds who built these systems to send messages to their nerd friends in other universities over ARPNET were as (more probably) livid as you.
for me, it was my first hint that capitalism ruins everything, more proof boomers ruin everything, and I hate email now too
Another reason to hate capitalism: the US Postal Service used to operate an email network, one of the first ever, but they were quickly outlawed from developing it because corporations like AoL wanted to create a similar service for profit. In a better world, E-COM (Electronic Computer-Originated Mail) addresses would be the only email addresses that Americans had & they would be properly vetted and spam-free.
Born too late to have memories before Eternal September, born too early to be woken up when September ends. Every time I open my inbox, it’s like trudging through the River Styx on foot to meet Charon so that he can simply deliver me a bag full of Cerberus’s shit.
i went from “damn i hate having to deal with emails (maybe) once a day :/” in university straight into a job that is almost nothing but emails. i can’t fucking stand this shit i stg
Luckily the alternative is 100 different surveillance and ad delivery services disguised as incompatible proprietary messaging apps, so at least we have that to look forward to.
Something that astonished me about China is that most people don’t have email addresses. If Chinese people want to communicate digitally, they use WeChat, which is tied to their phone number instead. And all other online accounts are also tied to a phone number, so generally the only Chinese people who even have an email are office workers and such, and it’s only used for work.
Also people won’t stop e-mailing your wife.
honestly, whenever someone emails me at work i don’t even read it i just call them
don’t waste my time with this back and forth bullshit
It’s great how we made writing letters as easy and as fast as it could possibly be, but that only meant that we had to write exponentially more of them. Thanks capitalism
