POLL: Does your ILX email address still work?

you should see the glowing missives i receive from paul edward wagemann on the regular

yes, one of my main email addresses.

paul edward wagemann is a fun search

i checked my ilx email address a few months back and found some ilxmail from 2007

but nothing since then, i suppose the dozens of fan mail messages have gone into the spam folder

mine died with paper thin walls

fan mail overload regularly crashes our mailserver, plz can you turn it down a notch guys? thx xxx

Oh god, I never get direct messages here but I just thought to check the spam-choked email associated with my previous login and there's ILX mail from four years ago I never saw.

I've had ilx mail go to the spam folder before. Also I just want to be clear that I was not claiming to get fanmail upthread. I've just gotten a couple of unsolicited and somewhat - how you say politely - "strange" msgs over the years.

did u ever get a mail from that dude that like compiles his favorite posts of yrs and just sends a long email w/ all of them? creepy, but kinda endearing imo.

wait what

no!

scared 4 u

subject line was 'greatest hits' so i was flattered

"I've just gotten a couple of unsolicited and somewhat - how you say politely - "strange" msgs over the years.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB)"

poll

was it anonymous?

Did you ever get mail from the one guy who cuts and pastes all of your WDYLL photos into a collage except with like naked bodies under your head? Terrifying but p dope Photoshop skills.

ok that sounds legit terrifying ^

mordy are your fans MRAs?

lol dying at OL's post

i feel like TRU KULT MRAs would not find my ilx shtick amusing at all

This fan mail thing is bizarre.

Mordy, are you sure you're not sending yourself messages when you're high?

hahahaha omg

stop being funny ppl i need to leave and i just keep refreshing

dear mordy, this weed you smoked is really excellent. great choice. yours truly, mordy.

my inbox is probably bursting with fanmail and i'll never know

Mine's a Hotmail address which probably tells you all you need to know. Yes, I rarely look at it and it's spam-infested. Although my main current address is also on Microsoft's newer Outlook webmail, as I remain perplexed at the popularity of unintuitive-as-all-getout Gmail.

did u ever get a mail from that dude that like compiles his favorite posts of yrs and just sends a long email w/ all of them? creepy, but kinda endearing imo.

― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:34 (10 minutes ago)

wtf now I feel legit snubbed

xpost Well, they don't throw out years' worth of correspondence if you forget to login every 30 days, for a start. Hotmail was ultimately just a digital shredder of my late '90s/early '00s online existence.

why would you have the account if you don't use it for 30 days? what if your shipwrecked uncle emailed you there?

i use a hotmail under a fake name which i can't get into because i refuse to give them my cell phone #

check my ilx email sporadically but not that often. tempted to start sending fan mail.

I lost years of correspondence some of which I really would have liked to keep by not logging into a hotmail account for 3 months. ;_;

By that point it was mostly spam and I just forgot to check
It.

i'm sorry, mordy is fucking with us, he has to be

i mean come on

people offering you the big penis you deserve are not your fans

hmmmmmmmm real talk, thanks Chimp Arsons

Does Google keeps your account active if you don't log on for years?

My first webmail account in the mid-'90s was on usa.net which went defunct and *everybody* lost all their correspondence. Also, I have another old Hotmail account where I seem to have lost most of my outgoing email although it has 10 years of incoming mail. (and yes, it's set to save all my outgoing mail).

tlg, i have Hotmail as my primary/ONLY account even tho i didn't give them my cellphone # (bcz I don't have one).

hm, okay, will try again

vote we each send posimail to start a virtuous circle

Already started.

No, it is dead and gone.

About five years ago my email account was deleted (moved ISP). Not bothered to change my name.

Also the reason I can't join 77.

I used to get the odd email, always quite nice - got one from a free jazz fan from Chile, another from the daughter of a drummer I wrote about on ilx - saying she was moved! I count this as a life highlight obv.

Few others from past regulars, nothing hateful or anything.

Oh that's right! Just a couple weeks ago I got an email from the spouse (?) of a musician I posted about on ilx once. She corrected me on some biographical facts (which as far as I can tell I just copied off of wikipedia or something).

just checked my ilx email address for probably the first time since I registered to see if I have any fanmail or emails from relatives of musicians I have posted about, I don't ;_;

none of martin jols family have been in touch fyi

my addy still works but i only check that account like once every 2-3 weeks

dying @ mordy reveal

sad that ppl have to resort to burners to avoid hate mail

I received an email from dmac telling me to lighten up

and an email from clouds asking for a link to a flac of an album by a band

that is it

didnt I sent u others subsequent? will rectify

Oh no we had a nice convo

I think I agreed to be more glib in future

My ILX login email address is long dead and gone. I've never understood why there's no option to change it, I wouldn't think that'd be too hard to code?

what problems do u foresee

Tuomas' fan mail landing in the ethereal dead letter office

ok i just got an email from someone called Creames Fartpoop lol

Well, now I just feel bad for luring you into saying your addy works.

Missed this but would have voted "No, it is dead and gone" - would like to see the hypothetical feature happen someday.

Wow. Creames Fartpoop barely posts at all compared to how often I think about their username.

oh yeah I forgot creames fartpoop is the other poster who has emailed me

it was after I had posted this

do people have like spreadsheets of their favorite ilx posters. my thursday night prayer group will remember you to the Lord if you do, just let me know

― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, May 9, 2013 2:22 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not a spreadsheet so much as I wrote "creames fartpoop" on the back of a receipt that I keep in my wallet

― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Thursday, May 9, 2013 5:21 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mine's an AOL address that I registered when I was a kid in 1998. I logged into it for the first time in ≈ 4 months and was greeted by an enthusiastic WELCOME TO AOL popup; all of my contacts and messages (probably just spam and ox gallstones...) have been purged, but I guess I reactivated it logging back in, so I'm now free to receive webmails I might not ever read.

came here to crack joeks, but now I want to nominate

I am very particular about how I answer polls and these choices displease me.

For ILM at least, lolz.