Email Address Tips
In addition to having your primary email address, I suggest having two additional email addresses.
1) The first additional email address would before subscribing to email lists or websites where there is a concern that it might generate an unknown quantity of undesired email.
2) The second additional email address would be for use on commercial websites where you place orders and they need an email address to send confirmations.
Here is a suggestion for creating an email name. When I first created a Gmail account (Google’s email), I used gregsteward (at gmail.com). Within a few minutes I started getting spam. I had heard that spammers have dictionaries of names in a database and that they automatically spew forth spam to email addresses constructed from those names. Spammers were already sending spam to gregsteward (at gmail.com).
That’s when I came up with gs777bs (at gmail.com, and hotmail.com, and aol.com). I use my gmail for my primary account and I use the other two for the above mentioned purposes.