I'd break them all. Let them burn.
Seriously, people need to learn how to deal with the internet, and I'm utterly tired of the let's dumb it down movement - it doesn't work.
The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account
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Re: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account
#182I have such an account. I get lots of misdirected business emails.
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#183Ugh, this is my life. Yes, including accusations of “hacking” when someone signed up for Facebook with my email. On the plus side, this personal experience made me very adamant about protecting mistakenly-registered users at my employer. When we were planning to add logged in accounts to our service, the sales team (understandably!) wanted the signup process to be as frictionless as possible, and thought that new use…
I have @gmail.com. Despite the number, I still get emails about other people’s bank accounts, parcels being shipped to them, the occasional missent scan…
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#184A friend of mine made https://guide.mlz.me/ "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Correctly Validating Customer's Email Addresses". He doesn't send it to everyone who typos an email address, but for businesses - especially ones that send him financial data unsolicited - the level of snark is appropriate.
Re: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account
#185A friend of mine made https://guide.mlz.me/ "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Correctly Validating Customer's Email Addresses". He doesn't send it to everyone who typos an email address, but for businesses - especially ones that send him financial data unsolicited - the level of snark is appropriate.
> Be comprised of two fields, forcing the user to type the email address twice.
Irritating. I just copy and paste it if I see that. Just send out a validation email.
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#186Oh god yes. I have a 6 character pronouncable gmail address as my main email address. Some highlights: * Several people from (I think) Mexico City have sent me requests in Spanish asking for medical prescriptions, including photos of their current medication. * I started receiving receipts for an Italian parking fee app. After I contacted their support about the problem, I received an email addressed to their user as…
I have my 6 letter surname at gmail as well, and I've had this issue for decades. Everything from wedding invitations to banking to schools etc. I have answered some helpfully if I had the time, but mostly ignored them and put them in a folder as "mail for others". One in particular, some kid in Arizona who shares my last name has signed up for everything from golf to Epic Games. I found him on facebook and friended…
I also have my username with gmail, and have had everyone from college professors, pastors, and restaurant equipment salesmen claim it as their own.
It really is mind boggling.
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#187As a former owner of an apparently popular gmail address: can confirm.
The really sad thing about it is that it exposes major flaws about the way we think about users and techonology.
* Lots of highly profitable and seemingly reputable sites give zero fucks about unsubscribe requests, don't require email verification and have no reasonable way of getting in touch with support staff.
* Considering the amount of errors stemming from failure to understand the concept of unique email addresses, lots of people who shouldn't use the net still insist on doing so. No clever app design or UX patterns can withstand the failure to grasp the most common uniquely identifying online token we have.
* A lot of the people mentioned above probably insist on using the net because they don't have a choice: Everything comes with an app or a web site and requires online registration just to harvest whatever is the desired user data du jour. Depending on where you live, even using official government services might require going online.
Re: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account
#188Ugh, this is my life. Yes, including accusations of “hacking” when someone signed up for Facebook with my email. On the plus side, this personal experience made me very adamant about protecting mistakenly-registered users at my employer. When we were planning to add logged in accounts to our service, the sales team (understandably!) wanted the signup process to be as frictionless as possible, and thought that new use…
I also have one of these email addresses, and have been accused of stealing it by some so-and-so who doesn't know what they're email actually is.
I unsubscribe and/or report spam where I can, but on a typical day, I still get around 3 emails intended for someone else.
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#189Heh. My Facebook username is one of the most common male names in Poland with no additional characters.
Until I blocked them, I was receiving password resets about 7 times a day, every day.
But I like to sit on it, just in case :)
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#190As you read through all of these comments you hope that there is some pattern of why all of this happens. Then, unfortunately, you come to the conclusion that there are hundreds of reasons why this happens. People on the other end of the counter just type in what’s easy because they make minimum wage and don’t care, people on the other end of the phone that didn’t hear something and just type in what’s easy because t…
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