POLL: Does your ILX email address still work?

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

I got fan mail as a result of this thread. :)

:)

reporting back to say i logged into my coupons-'n-promos account to set up an ilx forwarding filter, promptly got distracted by a GOG.com sale email, and now i own the deluxe edition of rollercoaster tycoon.

legit lols and legit <3 from my items of fan mail since I last posted

Thread reminded me to check where my ILXmail actually goes, and eventually I remembered it goes to an address I hadn't checked for a while, which turned out to have a full mailbox and probably have been rejecting emails for an unknown period because of it

think it still works now I've deleted a billion "special offers! this weekend only!" emails from many weekends ago tho

so I probably ought to tick "never look at it" but my head is now full of good intentions to check it more often and I think I'll let this delusion nudge my vote up to "may take a while" (though tbh if I don't see a non-promotional email within a week of it arriving it will be lost forever among the Amazon and Sainsbury's and That One Gift Tat Shop You Used Nine Christmases Ago Who Email You About New Products Every Day etc)

didn't know i had an ilx email address?

am i missing out on lots of mail from my fans?

at the risk of causing dreadful embarrassment, can i just say that if i were the fanmail sort, i would def send fanmail to a passing spacecadet

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System has such a lackluster personality. maybe it should be programmed to generate and send fanmail to ilxors

i only check my 77 board private deluxe address

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Based on the response, the great majority of ilx emails remain valid, but the majority of these are rarely or never examined. Those who, like me, have dead addresses which cannot be updated make up about 20% of ilxors.

My conclusion: if you try to send a personal email message via ilx, the odds are 2-1 against it being seen in a timely way. With odds like that, the failure rate will probably result in very few attempts to use that feature.

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