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Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by TallGuyShort »

Kiro wrote: post #21
zapu wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been in that position before, where people would find my e-mail address as a supposed tech support for something I have no relationship with whatsoever. Usually when you tell them they have a wrong e-mail, they get really angry ("I want to talk to your manager!" kind of angry). So it's better to just not respond at all.

That sounds extremely funny. I would pay good money to get to be on the receiving end of "I want to talk to your manager!" when you can act however you want.

If they came across and were familiarized with your name and email address in multiple locations, I wouldn't want to make them angrier for the 1% who are going to go manage to find my address somewhere and come find me. Best to just not touch the situation at all.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by problems »

ghaff wrote: post #100
problems wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do people have a publicly listed personal phone number though?

When I was writing some shareware and other PC software, there were basically two ways to reach me: write me a snail mail letter or call me. So it was pretty normal to publish your personal phone number (and address). I wouldn't do it today, but those were pretty much the only ways to contact people.

Even if you want to publish a phone number, you can get a voip number for under $1/mo from many providers these days and redirect it as needed, block numbers, send to voicemail, etc. Complete control over it and complete separation. It may have made sense at one point but today it seems crazy.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by vsakos »

theallan wrote: post #101
kalleboo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a catch-all domain, and every site/business gets its own @example.com. For business cards and friends I use something like myname@ or contact@ When one businesses address starts getting spam I blackhole it. Similar to the + suffix trick but works on any site.

What software do you use to manage that?

You can do that with Fastmail easily.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by Radio2034 »

theallan wrote: post #101
kalleboo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a catch-all domain, and every site/business gets its own @example.com. For business cards and friends I use something like myname@ or contact@ When one businesses address starts getting spam I blackhole it. Similar to the + suffix trick but works on any site.

What software do you use to manage that?

I do this using Google Apps, but I'm grandfathered into the free plan on my domain. I'm fairly sure most mail servers can do this though.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by Xylakant »

0x0 wrote: post #99
0xcde4c3db wrote: post #77

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

I believe SMTP attempts delivery to the A record if there is no MX record.

Indeed, if no MX record is known, but an A record is, mail will be sent to that host. However, example.(com,org) are designated testing domains by RFC and any self-respecting mail server should know not to forward mails there. And on top of that, since the domains are designated testing domains, they do not accept mails.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by willhslade »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #110
kpgraham wrote: post #90

Back in the days of shareware, around 1985, I wrote a program called TXT2COM. It was a simple way of turning a text file into an executable. All a user had to do was run the converted com file and the text file appeared on the screen with full scrolling, search and save. I had my name and phone number embedded in the program. My first problem was when someone converted the Constitution of the United States into a COM…

Knuth is such a class act. I don't think I've ever heard a negative story about him. Contrast him to, say, the harsh laguage Linus Torvalds routinely engages in or the many stories pointing out Steve Jobs' unfriendly side. I'm not 100% sure if you have to be a jerk to get ahead in life and lean towards 'yes' on this but when I see guys like Knuth, I wonder if nice guys do win sometimes. >TXT2COM As an 80s BBS kid, I…

Knuth is a one man shop. Torvalds is leading the biggest open source project in the world, and Jobs was leading one of America's largest corporations by market cap. Leading is different than writing.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by kohanz »

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…

> If the customer gets angry at the response, it's fine because it just means they don't understand, which means they are just getting angrier at the car company.

I think it's easy to say that "it's fine" without stepping into Daniel's shoes, but the responder still has to carry some of the emotional weight of that interaction through the rest of his day. I don't blame him one bit for wanting not part of that.

Remember, this is customer service. You and many others may be nice and have reasonable expectations, but it's the outliers that sour the whole experience. I also would not opt-in to wasting my time and energy on these responses.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by Ivoah »

freehunter wrote: post #76
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…

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1279/

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by ffjffsfr »

How can you find text of license of curl in Toyota? I have friend with Toyota wanted to verify. Or maybe someone in this thread can verify this? Is it somewhere in user-guide?

Seriously how people can possibly think some random email from user guide or whatever text they find in car is valid support channel? It is either completely idiotic or there's something wrong with Toyota information guide that leads to this misunderstanding.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by elFarto »

freehunter wrote: post #76
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…

I'm amazed how many people get their email address wrong. I have .@gmail.com, which is fine, and hardly gets any mail meant for someone else. @gmail.com however, is basically unusable. Funny thing is, the latter was the one I created first, but I forgot the password so had to create the other. I managed to recover it later and I'm glad I have the former.
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