I freaked, today (well, last night, technically), at my flatmate for going to my computer (while I was in the room) and poking through my inbox to see if an email he'd sent (to see if his email was broken, also it was a picture of his girlfriend) had arrived yet.
No one /ever/ goes even that far into my email, with the exception of E, who I gave the password to my user account to, and so can access my entire email archive. When I was there she read through emails from Melody.
My email account isn't just a means of contacting me, it's my /history/. I have email going back to the mid 90s, and the total archive is a couple of hundred megabytes of pure text - tens of thousands of messages. Every email that E sent me is there. Every email Acey sent me. Every email Melody sent me. Even just about every email my mother sent me.
So access to that is a Big Thing, and there are no circumstances under which I would share it with anyone other than E.
For "sharing a computer" I read "Sharing a single-user computer, or sharing an account on a computer" - i.e. all personal settings and files carry over.
I didn't check this one: I share a sole e-mail address with another person/people.
Because my friend and I both have other site-based addresses that came along with this or that, you know, like Hotmail, and the ones from my website I use for business. And there's also my son, 11, who doesn't use his yet.
We started out on one household machine, then internet connection, totally shared. Now all three of us have our own computers, but the internet connection is a home network, and all email comes to the one address.
I guess when you have lived with someone for over 25 years, sharing stuff feels pretty normal. :)
It's too early for me to be thinking clearly so if this was an option and I didn't see it, sorry.
I have three email addresses. *Work which, I suppose, the smarmy boys in the tech department could read if they were so inclined. So nothing pervy goes in or out through this one. *MSN which is mine. But there are times when my ex-husband or my parents will send mail to my daughter through here. So I guess I sort of share. But she's never on the computer by herself. *Yahoo but no one ever sends me mail there. But it's very private as my daughter has no idea of its existence and I often forget about it myself.
should comment that I could really never share either an e-mail acct or a computer, and that I only have one e-mail address right now b/c all of the others (there were originally 6 that I used) have succombed to spam and I have been forced by redundant spam-checking to give each up in turn
I have 2 REAL email addresses (one of which goes to the other's box; LJ) and a "fake" one that I use when I don't want spam in my inbox. The reason I say fake is because it is valid in the sense that it goes to my husband's "iffy" filter, which he cleans out every so often (and he'll forward me something if it looks important). Also, since we share an e-bay account (and a paypal account--since we share a bank acct this makes sense), all ebay and paypal email that is sent to his email is also sent to me thru a filter he has set up. Only two people can access my email: my husband, since he has my password (I've sometimes needed info from my acct while stuck at work, very useful), and presumably the incredibly moral person who runs the server through which we get our email and webspace (but I trust him, else who CAN you trust?).
I take it as a given that admin types for some things will always have access to things. If I were plotting something illegal, I sure as fuckhoney would not do it via e-mail.
I have been thinking about setting up a common e-mail address with the fiance, so people could use it for common things, and mail us privately on our separate addresses. Also, I'm away quite a lot these days, and could sometimes use the sharing.
But that'll have to wait until we get ourselves the common webpage.
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No one /ever/ goes even that far into my email, with the exception of E, who I gave the password to my user account to, and so can access my entire email archive. When I was there she read through emails from Melody.
My email account isn't just a means of contacting me, it's my /history/. I have email going back to the mid 90s, and the total archive is a couple of hundred megabytes of pure text - tens of thousands of messages. Every email that E sent me is there. Every email Acey sent me. Every email Melody sent me. Even just about every email my mother sent me.
So access to that is a Big Thing, and there are no circumstances under which I would share it with anyone other than E.
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I couldn't do it.
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I had enough trouble sharing a multi-user computer, with me with admin privs and him without.
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...scarily, I suspect I could share a computer, and even user account, with Darkside. Though I'd want some e-mail privacy.
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I share a sole e-mail address with another person/people.
Because my friend and I both have other site-based addresses that came along with this or that, you know, like Hotmail, and the ones from my website I use for business. And there's also my son, 11, who doesn't use his yet.
We started out on one household machine, then internet connection, totally shared. Now all three of us have our own computers, but the internet connection is a home network, and all email comes to the one address.
I guess when you have lived with someone for over 25 years, sharing stuff feels pretty normal. :)
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I have three email addresses.
*Work which, I suppose, the smarmy boys in the tech department could read if they were so inclined. So nothing pervy goes in or out through this one.
*MSN which is mine. But there are times when my ex-husband or my parents will send mail to my daughter through here. So I guess I sort of share. But she's never on the computer by herself.
*Yahoo but no one ever sends me mail there. But it's very private as my daughter has no idea of its existence and I often forget about it myself.
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Only two people can access my email: my husband, since he has my password (I've sometimes needed info from my acct while stuck at work, very useful), and presumably the incredibly moral person who runs the server through which we get our email and webspace (but I trust him, else who CAN you trust?).
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I take it as a given that admin types for some things will always have access to things. If I were plotting something illegal, I sure as fuckhoney would not do it via e-mail.
Re: sharing e-mail
I run multiple mail servers. If someone needs an e-mail address, it's easy enough to give them one.
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"I'm living with my mom and dad ... what do I need my own e-mail address for?" is pretty much the attitude.
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*sigh*
Some men.
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But that'll have to wait until we get ourselves the common webpage.
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