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Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by 109281091 »

ominous wrote: post #22
noobermin wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be the opposite of karma, wouldn't it? Unless OSS is unrewarded evil in your eyes

$ google "define karma" karma /ˈkɑːmə,ˈkəːmə/ noun noun: karma (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future informal good or bad luck, viewed as resulting from one's actions. Not all karma is good. The important part is the "resulting from one's actions"

These definitions aren't a computer program. They require some degree of cooperation from the reader.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by riskable »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #39
riskable wrote: post #26

I have had a similar problem for about two decades now in regards to eCards (virtual greeting cards). I own youknowwhat.com and one of my email addresses is youknowwho@youknowwhat... Turns out that thousands of people every year think they are being super clever by putting my email address in the "From" field. So of course I get zillions of "receipts" for these eCards. "Sister, I hope you feel better soon" ...is the…

Those e-card providers should of course do some rudimentary sender e-mail verification.

I get loads of verification emails too. eCard sites don't usually require email validation but that doesn't stop them from trying!

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by hollander »

Xylakant wrote: post #66
city41 wrote: post #44

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Sounds similar to the problems test.com endures. http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm

It's a surprisingly hard task to educate developers and testers to use the designated test domains (example.com and example.org) in automated or manual tests.

I thought the TLD test was meant for this, like mydomain.test.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by TheArcane »

jaspervdmeer wrote: post #62
forgettableuser wrote: post #23

As somebody who has written to companies about bugs in their products (and almost always ignored), I would really appreciate a response even if it was some form letter thing to the effect of "I just make a small component that happens to be used in your car, kind of like the people who make the screws in your car. Please contact your car manufacturer directly." I personally just like knowing somebody read my letter i…

Yeah you would, but you're on Hacker News and not stupid, like 99.999999999% of users are. To them a reply and it doesn't matter what's in the reply as they're not reading it anyway, means they have somebody to vent to. And if Daniel doesn't solve it. T-mobile is a bad company. DO NOT ever understimate the stupidity of people. No reply is best reply in cases like this!

>Yeah you would, but you're on Hacker News and not stupid, like 99.999999999% of users are.

Aren't statements like these frowned upon in HN? It's unfair of you to use a use a fake statistic like that and call people 'stupid'.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by js2 »

IshKebab wrote: post #69
Xylakant wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a surprisingly hard task to educate developers and testers to use the designated test domains (example.com and example.org) in automated or manual tests.

Surely example.com has these problems too, although to be fair they don't really need to receive any email.

example.com does not receive e-mail. It is specifically set aside (along with example.{net,org} and a few TLDs) for testing:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606

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Post by freehunter »

riskable wrote: post #26

I have had a similar problem for about two decades now in regards to eCards (virtual greeting cards). I own youknowwhat.com and one of my email addresses is youknowwho@youknowwhat... Turns out that thousands of people every year think they are being super clever by putting my email address in the "From" field. So of course I get zillions of "receipts" for these eCards. "Sister, I hope you feel better soon" ...is the…

I get something similar. I was an early adopter of a popular email service, so I managed to get @.com. Pretty neat, pretty simple, right? Except I have a really common name, and people seem think that if the email address has their name in it, it must be their email address. I get sign-ups for Facebook all the time. I get emails about credit scores that make me panic until I realize I didn't sign up for that service. The other day I got an appointment reminder to take my Vauxhall into the shop for service (I live in the US, we don't have Vauxhall here).

Email is hard and confusing for a lot of people. It's easy for us to forget that.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by 0xcde4c3db »

IshKebab wrote: post #69
Xylakant wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a surprisingly hard task to educate developers and testers to use the designated test domains (example.com and example.org) in automated or manual tests.

Surely example.com has these problems too, although to be fair they don't really need to receive any email.

example.com has an empty MX record, so you can't really send email to it anyway.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by coldpie »

Peroni wrote: post #18

I used to run a tech job board in the UK called Hacker Jobs. I used to get two or three emails a week from folk (almost always outside of the UK) asking me to hack into Facebook and gmail accounts. The best thing was that the job board was very obviously a normal tech job board yet these people had to dig pretty deep into the site to find my contact email.

The development IRC channel for the Wine project is #winehackers, and we pretty regularly get morons asking what kind of hacking tools we develop, or if we can help them crack some software's DRM.

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Post by ryuker16 »

coldcode wrote: post #53

Ask Google for help. Yes, I know that's an oxymoron, Google doesn't do customer service for a reason. Most companies find it easier to ignore problems with their customers than to do anything.

Sign up for Google ads...they roll out a red carpet and even call you first to check up or offer free tutorial by a human on new features.
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