Set up different email address for 'meaningful' personal correspondence?

Question

I was reading Jay Caspian King in the New York Times today ("Email Is Slow and Creates Distance. That&rsquo;s Why It&rsquo;s Great")[1]. The piece is about when email was used more often for lengthy personal correspondence (i.e., writing 'letters'). I came across this paragraph:""" I have one piece of advice for anyone who wants to return to the old days of email: Set up a separate account for all of your lengthy correspondences and check it about once every two or three days. This, more or less, is the relationship I have with the emails I receive from the readers of this newsletter. As I mentioned in last week&rsquo;s edition, my reader email address has resulted in dozens of meaningful exchanges, the sort of stuff I rarely find on social media """Does anyone do anything like this? How did it work?[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/opinion/email-slack-technology.html

ljoshua · Accepted Answer

I do this. I have an email address that ends in “.work” for everything, and then a “.mail” which is only for family and very close friends. Signal-to-noise ratio is of course night and day, and I cherish getting something at my .mail account, and have the usual dread for anything on my .work account.
Another small plus: because if the rather unusual format of [myname].[mail|work], spam is virtually eliminated (at least in the .mail account).
I’d recommend it.