As many of my readers know, I suffer from terminal uniqueness.  I think I am the only one with these problems.  So let me state for the record I am not sure how I have gotten myself into this mess.

Some friends have figured out that I have a gmail account and for the some of the entities that I am associated with, I have a gmail account with them.  I forward all of the corporate gmail into my imho account for simplicity sake.

However the Gmail account that is “@gmail” I would never forward anywhere.

It is my joiner account.  You got a newsletter you want me to read? send it to my gmail.  I won’t read it but I will scan and search.

I thought that was a brillant way to use the account, and ASSumed others did likewise.

But some friends insist on using my @gmail account as the primary and get annoyed that I only find these things months later while searching the mail.

So this post is to tell you that carl.ford@gmail.com is not intended for anything but archives.

Am I alone in using Gmail this way?