Ron, consider grabbing the kruzman.com domain name.... it's available for $2.99 a year from godaddy.com . That would allow you to have [email protected], or [email protected], or [email protected] forever so long as you keep the domain registration. You just need a cheap starter web account from 1and1.com or the like which gives you more email capability than you will ever need for next to nothing. Not to mention a web presence at kruzman.com. You automatically get all the sub-domains as well, like pinball.kruzman.com, etc.
If you have the domain, you have as many email addresses as you want. If you need one for cause xyz, give them "[email protected]" and have that routed to your real address. If they leak it or sell the address to spammers, you know who did it and can kill off just that address.
Why be dependent on gmail and have all your mail searched by Google?
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