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I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…
I run an FB page with ~60k followers.
Since about a month now, I'm getting these password reset emails in batches.. some day none, other days 10-20.
I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…
I keep that old account for 2 purposes:
1. It amuses me. I log in and clear it out once a year or so.
2. At various times I’ve had coworkers who didn’t believe it was common for people to enter someone else’s email address when registering for a sensitive system. When that happens, I’ve taken them to my old Yahoo webmail. Oh look, another kstrauser’s loan paperwork!
I can only imagine what that’d be like if it were at Gmail and not Yahoo.
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I just wish Microsoft would let me use any other authenticator app instead of their garbage one. So now I've got one from Google with 99% of my accounts on it, one for Microsoft for one of 4 MS accounts, and one for the USG for IRS/etc. Waste of space and poorly-duplicated functionality.
Microsoft does let you use other authenticators. My non-MS authenticator app has 3 MS accounts on it.
We've received hundreds of notification mails, newsletter subscriptions, alerts (from internal systems disclosing details about infrastructure of giant corporations), etc.
It was quite fun, but became annoying quickly. We've then reduced reception to the common hostmaster@, ... mailboxes and for all other mailboxes we are now rejecting the mails with a nice reminder message in our Sieve filters.
I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…
I have a simple@Gmail.com address and I have this problem quite a lot, were i get a lot of random stuff. Sometimes from the same person, there starbucks card seems to be linked to it for example. Annoying.
I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…
I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…
How is this related to the topic?
My @.com address gets incessant password reset requests for every major online site in existence. (I should have been clearer about this; sorry.)
I am suggesting that, by having strange or very unique e-mail address, you can fairly effectively mitigate this phenomenon.
I'm more impressed by the fact that HN didn't convert this linked to old.reddit.com
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I actually lost my Instagram account because, I believe, it filled in my email field with a dummy one, user@example.com and then when I had to do verification, I could never recover the account. I believe it was in the very early days of Instagram although it's possible there was user error on my part in this case. It is too bad because for symmetry I used the same use name in a number of places (not the one I have h…
I lost a yahoo account because I put in incorrect information (I claimed to be 99 year old female or some such thing) and then forgot the password. I never really did anything with my yahoo account though, so it doesn't matter other than I couldn't unsubscribe to some mailing list.
Fuck this bullshit.