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@PleegWat said in Popular Gmail-address:
@FrostCat In her mind, of course it's her address. She always used frostcat@hotmail.com. Now along with everyone she moved to gmail, so obviously frostcat@gmail.com is hers.
I keep wondering if I'll get emails for my sister-in-law. She has name@yahoo. I have name@gmail. (Our first and middle initials are the same)
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@PleegWat As I said above, she once subscribed me to a mailing list of her friends, or sunday school group, or something. I told them that this wasn't her address, and they deleted me from the list, but she's still signing me up for stuff every so often.
I am pretty sure I still have her phone number from something she ordered, and one day I may just give her a call. It's not just the email address at this point--it's accounts I have created with other places (like Facebook), my Android phone, etc.
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I have an incredibly unusual last name (100s in the world, precisely one guy who shares exactly the same first name and last name with me and he's an old so he doesn't internet) and I still get emails intended for my dad.
I'm lastname@ivorytower.edu and he's initial.lastname@ivorytower.edu but I guess people just glide right over that? Weirdly I don't get emails intended for my brother, which is hisinitial.lastname@ivorytower. I guess they assume that lastname must be my dad? I actually don't know how I managed lastname as an identifier, especially considering there's a protocol for generating them and lastname doesn't match. (See the sad case of megan finger).
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@AyGeePlus blubar and lubar at my university are both email addresses owned by people in my house. My university has a Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business.
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Some random sent me cat pictures today. Okay...
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@Greybeard There's threads of fox pictures and otter pictures if you need to compensate…
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@ben_lubar said in Popular Gmail-address:
@AyGeePlus blubar and lubar at my university are both email addresses owned by people in my house. My university has a Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business.
Ben-- are you actually going to a university, or is this just your parents telling you the basement is "university". Is "Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business" a hand-written sign someone stuck up by your computer?
You don't have to answer. But if you'd like me to call someone, blink and pull on your ankle chain.
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@Lorne-Kates Apparently Ben is quite the prankster.
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@El_Heffe So he's got a large basement…
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It's like a goddamn story. A sad story. In so many ways.
Since April, emails for Laura have gone on this trajectory:
- Welcome to DirecTV
- You added a bunch of premium channels
- DirecTV is decreasing the amount of bandwidth you have, unless you pay more
- Your credit card was declined
- Your payment is past due.
Oh, Laura-- pay your bills. And if you can't afford premium channels and upper tier internet, don't sign up for it. Make a budget and stick to it.
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@Lorne-Kates fuck you give her money?
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@gleemonk said in Popular Gmail-address:
@Lorne-Kates fuck you give her money?
I ain't no suggadaddy, ho.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Popular Gmail-address:
It's like a goddamn story. A sad story. In so many ways.
Since April, emails for Laura have gone on this trajectory:
- Welcome to DirecTV
- You added a bunch of premium channels
- DirecTV is decreasing the amount of bandwidth you have, unless you pay more
- Your credit card was declined
- Your payment is past due.
Oh, Laura-- pay your bills. And if you can't afford premium channels and upper tier internet, don't sign up for it. Make a budget and stick to it.
You're a random person getting the emails... are you sure there wasn't another random person somewhere getting the credit card bill?
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I have had this happen too. Most of the time I only get one random email and ignore it.
The time a guy was ordering steaks by mail to an address in Texas I replied to the company, letting them know that it was either a mistaken email address or fraud, and the company graciously agreed to look into it and remove my email address from the account. But the emailed receipt that started it gave me the guy's real name home address, and over the next couple months he (same real name) started signing up for all kinds of accounts giving my email address. At some point, he signed up for another email account, citing mine as the fallback address, so I started resetting passwords and logging into all his other accounts, changing the email address to that other one, and changing the password to idiot (plus whatever else was required for local password policy) just so I'd stop getting all his junk. After maybe 4 months he figured out his real email address and this stopped.
There was also email from some group of friends (I think mothers of children at the same school in another state) where somebody gave my address to the group, and I wrote back once to get them to stop sending me all their invitations to little social gatherings I was neither interested in nor capable of making it to.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Popular Gmail-address:
Oh, Laura-- pay your bills. And if you can't afford premium channels and upper tier internet, don't sign up for it. Make a budget and stick to it.
Laura, Laura, Laura. I thought you were getting better at this. You had caught up on your payments, and things were going so well.
And now I get this from DirectTV:
http://i.imgur.com/2oos1Q0.png
=(
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Apparently there's another Mason Wheeler out there, who consistently has trouble keeping his email provider straight.
Among other things, (lots of other things,) he happens to be from the same church as me, so I keep getting invitations that look completely legitimate to activities at a meetinghouse in a city (and state) I've never been to, much less lived in! It's a bit surreal.
I also consistently get overage notifications from Verizon Wireless (with whom I do not have an account and never have had one) for someone named Mackenzie Chancellor who I have never met. No clue how my email address ended up attached to their system. Repeated phone calls to Verizon have failed to put a stop to it.
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@masonwheeler said in Popular Gmail-address:
Apparently there's another Mason Wheeler out there, who consistently has trouble keeping his email provider straight.
Among other things, (lots of other things,) he happens to be from the same church as me, so I keep getting invitations that look completely legitimate to activities at a meetinghouse in a city (and state) I've never been to, much less lived in! It's a bit surreal.
I also consistently get overage notifications from Verizon Wireless (with whom I do not have an account and never have had one) for someone named Mackenzie Chancellor who I have never met. No clue how my email address ended up attached to their system. Repeated phone calls to Verizon have failed to put a stop to it.
Methinks they can't actually delete contact information, just move it to the bottom of the list and write in a note that nobody will read.
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@masonwheeler said in Popular Gmail-address:
Apparently there's another Mason Wheeler out there,
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@boomzilla
euh ... can you keep that kind of stache in the thread next time
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@Luhmann But he's so cute!
Edit: Wait... that's a different baby, isn't it? I just assumed this baby's gender and now I'm assuming it again but differently.
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@Zecc said in Popular Gmail-address:
Wait... that's a different baby, isn't it?
Yes... more hair, lighter hair, and darker eyes than the first baby.
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@anotherusername said in Popular Gmail-address:
more hair, lighter hair, and darker eyes
All things that can change in babies over time.
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@Yamikuronue yes, but over the time of about 20 or 30 minutes? Just how long was that birthday party?
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@anotherusername Babies tend to have more than one birthday party as well, though it's not always the case
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@Yamikuronue those pictures were all taken at one party, though. Somebody posted the link, about 5 posts up:
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Wow, when it rains it pours. Les is handing out the wrong email address again. But this time he's getting into some shady real-estate dealings:
From a Broker/REALTOR in Texas:
Les,
I’ve been digging and came up with a bunch of stuff from the appraisal district in Kinney County. That is for Moody Ranches Inc., MoodyLibbie Shearn TR, and Robert L. Moody Jr. I suspect that they’re all entangled some way because the geographic IDs from the appraisal district are all similarly numbered. I have copies of all of that mess if you’re interested I will send it to you.
Does this help you at all?
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@Lorne-Kates Another one from the broker:
I’m just checking to see if you received the appraisal information and if it was of any value. I can go deeper than that if you’d like. Just let me know and I enjoy these treasure hunts.
Right, I've had enough. Time to reply.
From: me
To: them
Well, it doesn't help me in any way, but feel free to go nuts digging.
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@ben_lubar said in Popular Gmail-address:
@Lorne-Kates said in Popular Gmail-address:
Texas
That's near Canada, right?
I'll do a quick spot check by asking someone at random.
Hey, you, is Texas near Canada?
Yes.There we go.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Popular Gmail-address:
Time to reply.
For such a great treasure hunting puzzle solver, this person doesn't seem to see the blatant obvious clues such as:
- A complete change in writing style and voice
- The fact that the FROM name isn't "Les".
Just got back:
OK, tell me more specifically what you would like for me to search for. I’ll be happy to help if I can.
Time to turn down the subtlety filter:
FROM Me
TO Them
Specifically, the first thing you may want to find is Les' email address.
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@ben_lubar said in Popular Gmail-address:
@Lorne-Kates said in Popular Gmail-address:
Texas
That's near Canada, right?
Question is ambiguous. Please define
near
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@Lorne-Kates said in Popular Gmail-address:
Hey, you, is Texas near Canada?
Yes.To be fair, they're about the same distance from the moon.
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@dcon said in Popular Gmail-address:
Question is ambiguous. Please define
near
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@hungrier said in Popular Gmail-address:
@Lorne-Kates said in Popular Gmail-address:
Hey, you, is Texas near Canada?
Yes.To be fair, they're about the same distance from the moon.
:thats_the_joke.c:
seriously, do I need a emoji that's a rocketship?
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@Luhmann putting what on pants?
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@Jaloopa
I'll mark that response under 'no' then
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Yay! I can join this discussion now!
A while ago, I registered an email address for accounts I don't really care about and which I don't want to use under my real name. It has the form qwerty@[provider]. Today, some 16-year-old asshole used that email address to register a Spotify account. I immediately reset his password to: "Fuck you, asshole!". Too bad he won't be able to see it and get the hint.
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@asdf People also like to use my email address as a test address, and send random gibberish. I usually respond with links to gay porn.
How stupid do you have to be to send test emails to an address you don't control? How are you ever going to figure out whether it actually arrived?
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BTW: Does Spotify not require you to verify your email address?
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@asdf May be they like receiving free gay porn.
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@Zecc said in Popular Gmail-address:
May be they like receiving free gay porn.
In that case, they probably stopped writing because they were busy masturbating to my porn collection? Who knows…
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@asdf said in Popular Gmail-address:
@asdf People also like to use my email address as a test address, and send random gibberish. I usually respond with links to gay porn.
How stupid do you have to be to send test emails to an address you don't control? How are you ever going to figure out whether it actually arrived?
I've used a@a.com to be sure they really needed a valid address. Poor a.
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@masonwheeler said in Popular Gmail-address:
Apparently there's another Mason Wheeler
is that your complete name? I thought you were a freemason 18-wheeler driver
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@asdf said in Popular Gmail-address:
How stupid do you have to be to send test emails to an address you don't control?
If the e-mail is something I get smashing my hand in the keyboard like asdf, then I don't think it's that stupid. I fill a lot of shit with asdf when testing
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@fbmac You actually send emails? How do you usually delete those?
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@asdf deletes them from sent mail, of course. Then they never happened.
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@asdf said in Popular Gmail-address:
@fbmac You actually send emails? How do you usually delete those?
Gmail does have a "recall" feature for the first X seconds after sending. It's close.