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Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Tuesday 18 November 2025

Here’s something else I don’t understand people doing: using the email address provided by their ISP or an Icloud email address.

I see a lot of email addresses through work and it’s like, “you’re really wedded to bigpond or active8me, huh?” Or it’s like, you didn’t have an email address before getting your iPhone? Apple created you an email address and you decided to go with that now?

Although realistically these are probably just old people that are getting their emails routed through outlook or the default mail app on their phone and aren’t changing internet providers anytime soon.

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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I reckon it’s 100% the last one.

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- tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Boomers probably signed up with an ISP in the 90’s and are like, “this is my email now”. I still don’t understand using icloud for anything important though. You must be really confident you’re only ever going to use iPhones going forward
  
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  - SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    My mum’s email was something like 10001442.34632@compuserve.com.au for fucking years.
    
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    tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Imagine getting an email from that address now and just thinking the person is spam
    
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  - Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You’re spot on lol
    
    I’d say most that are in the ios ecosystem are going to be long term.
    
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  - LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    @bigpond
    
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RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My Mum’s still got a Bigpond address. We’ve been trying to get her off it, which has hopefully been successful as she’s now moved and doesn’t have Telstra internet anymore. Not that Telstra want to maintain the Bigpond addresses either - it’s a legacy system they are still operating only because of old people who refuse to leave!

The other thing she did was create a joint email for her and my Dad (which I don’t think he ever would have looked at himself anyway, but his name was in the address). I guess that’s a transfer from how landlines would be for a household and not an individual and the email address was looked at the same way.

Then there’s me, with lots of email addresses for different things (especially banking and secure things, they get a unique email that is used nowhere else). Plus most business dealings I create an alias address, so if the business leaks it I can tell exactly where it came from.

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