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Interesting. I wonder if in my case, being more forceful would work.

As in, gather their email addresses, create forwards with first@lastname.com, and give them biz cards, or DMs, with those addresses. Once you are able to share first@last.com as your email, it's hard to go back.

I think that's kinda how Stripe got sign-ups back in the day, according to HN lore. Just grab their laptop, and write the 3 lines of code. :)

I just want my fam to have the power of saying "my email is first@last." Maybe Reply As is not important. Just the to: alias would do.

I could probably manually scrape FB and make the aliases,[0] send them messages asking for their current email address, create the @lastname.com fwd, and meet a bunch more family that way.

Thank you for helping me get to this point.

Cheers!

[0] Namecheap allows 100 email fwds/domain for free. That's what I will do manually.



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