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Re: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

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Post by jen729w » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 4:07 AM UTC

jlokier wrote: post #171

jen729w wrote: post #134

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I gave up using mail@ .network because of the significant percentage of sites that refuse the .network TLD. One large financial services provider even told me that their "policy" was to allow 3, 4, or 5 characters as the last part of the domain. So .ninja is A-OK. I pointed out how ludicrous this was, and they told me it was their "policy" again, and that's why Australian Super doesn't have any of my money.

> their "policy" was to allow 3, 4, or 5 characters as the last part of the domain Wow, no country codes? I could understand a restriction dating from before the great expansion of TLDs, but expect it to have a 2 in it.

Ah, apologies. My mistake, yes, 2 digits was fine.

Actually I wonder then if it was 2, 3, or 4. I think it was, because I remember thinking that .wiki would have been okay.

Either way. Arbitrary and stupid.

Re: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

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Post by samstave » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 7:38 AM UTC

themaninthedark wrote: post #229

samstave wrote: post #113

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Over a decade ago, I was added to a Sri Lanken family tree thing on Ancestry - because they invited my email address, as we have the same last name (my last name though is Norwegian, and the same as this sri lanken family. I still get updates in my email from this family and even had bank statement updates sent to me. and birthday wishes mean for the other sstave... I have told them multiple times - but I am still on…

Of course they won't let you go, your family now! I have Firstname.Lastname@gmail but I never get any mistaken mail there. Now text messages on the other hand... I get all sorts, at one point I was getting some for a Black Gun group. Now I am getting them from the DNC but they are address to the wrong name. The scarier thing is two factor authorization text messages, I remember getting some for Facebook and Instagram…

I love getting unknown sender random texts. I play a game with myself to see how long I can keep them responding.

One time I got a wrong number and over the next few days coached a lady who was calling her friend for advice on her upcoming job interview, as she wasnt sure she wanted to make that career change.

I did the best I could to advise on the matter (sincerely) - but I never got a reply on the matter.

I always delete the message immediately after so the thread isnt there so I have no way of initiating a connection.

Re: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

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Post by cik » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 8:56 AM UTC

muzani wrote: post #279

cik wrote: post #117

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Yup, I feel your pain. One of my emails is @ .com. This fails verification on so many websites it's just comical. I then figured on making a @ .com. Turns out folks mostly validate .com in my experience, which I assume is because of good old mail.com. It's frustrating.

You could probably put a +. Instead of c@cik.com, it could be c+hn@cik.com or c+jobs@cik.com. These would still forward it to c@cik.com [0] This has the side effect of knowing who has been selling out your email to spammers. [0] https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addr...

I mean I legit wish I owned cik.com, that'd be awesome :p. Seriously though tonnes of folks fail the +. You know what's especially awesome? Ever try shot non-UTF8 domains. Those are fun.

Re: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

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Post by tmearnest » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 6:00 PM UTC

My email is a domain hack spelling my name using a three letter ccTLD. You’d think telling people my email address is just my name with the a circled and a dot between the e and s, but you’d be wrong. Way wrong. It’s a cool address at least...

Re: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

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Post by davchana » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 12:38 AM UTC

chousuke wrote: post #158

murrayb wrote: post #124

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I have a firstname.lastname Gmail account. Neither frst or last are particularly common. There are various people around the planet who hand out my address as there own, I get invoices on a regular basis but also correspondence from real estate agents and legal correspondence. Most recently I spam listed a Canadian telco because some gentleman in Canada is joyfully handing out my address. On the other hand I very rar…

It can also be that instead of people giving your Gmail address as their own, the receiver ignores the domain and just assumes that it's @gmail.com. I've had that happen a couple times. People also get very confused about + in addresses.

Yes, i have people sending me emails at first.last.com@gmail.com, instead of first@last.com. How I know? They type both addresses just to be sure.