Personally, I have two hotmail accounts that I use actively, an account on my friend's domain, a gmail, and my work email. I also have account names at yahoo and AIM that have attached email addys that I don't actually use. It's pretty normal, I think, for people to have many different email addys for various purposes.

HOWEVER, if you work in the White House, and you are doing official business correspondence through an outside email address, that would be a VIOLATION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002771.php

CREW: White House Breaking Records Law?
By Paul Kiel - March 15, 2007, 2:24 PM


A number of readers have pointed out that Karl Rove's deputy at the White House, Scott Jennings, used an outside domain, gwb43.com, for his emails. The domain, it turns out, is owned by the Republican National Committee.




Now Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has sent a letterto House government reform committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) requesting an investigation of whether the White House has been violating the Presidential Records Act -- in an attempt to keep certain correspondence away from prying eyes.

Jennings use of the RNC's email "raises serious questions about whether the White House was trying to deliberately evade its responsibilities under the PRA, which directs the president to take all necessary steps to maintain presidential records to provide a full accounting of all activities during his tenure," says CREW.

And there's evidence that Jennings' use of an outside domain was a pattern in Rove's office. CREW points out that Karl Rove's former assistant Susan Ralston also frequently used outside domains to communicate to her old boss, Jack Abramoff.

The Washington Post reported yesterday that House Democrats are also planning on investigating the White House's use of outside domains for correspondence. Namely:



An RNC spokeswoman told the Post that "As a matter of course, the RNC provides server space and equipment to certain White House personnel in order to assist them with their political efforts."

But the question here is whether there is any line between "political efforts" and official duties in the Bush White House.

3 hotmails, of which one i found out yesterday expired. the other 2 are my first email account ever and one i use for "formal" purposes.

i have both forwarding to my main gmail account though, so i dont really check hotmail anymore.

i also have 2 additional gmail accounts, most used for when it is neccesary to sign up for some crap to advance. they're spamalicious.

i have 3 at work, one personal and 2 shared once with others.

that's it.

Nice pic.