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Putting All Your E-Mail In One Basket
from the good-or-bad? dept
The majority of people I know now use either their own domain name or a free yahoo or hotmail email address as their main email for personal correspondence. However, many people prefer to use their work email address for personal emails. Most companies don't have a problem with this (as long as it's not abused, or used for sending porn), but it does bring up some other issues. First of all, what happens to the email address when you switch jobs. Increasingly, your email address is your identity - and if it goes away when you change jobs, it's like a part of your life has been shut off. The other, perhaps bigger, issue is that most companies, these days, monitor their employees' email. So, all those personal emails are not private at all, and may be read by the company's IT staff or certain executives. I'm somewhat surprised that so many people use their corporate email accounts this way, since the risk of getting in trouble seems so much higher than the "cost" of getting a separate email account.
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Why do people do this?
2 - because they don't know how to:
a - buy a domain and run their own servers
b - subscribe to service like oddpost.com
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