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Emails I Received, the Collection

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Re: Emails I Received, the Collection

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Post by psittacus »

Not to cast any shade on Daniel, but perhaps as a warning of sorts?

Actually reading through the emails was only sporadically fun — a lot of them are from people who seem like they need urgent help and obviously aren't getting it.

His "summary" is "somehow they help me remember that the world we live in is super complicated" and while true, it was more of testament how confused a lot of people are, how lost. And how privileged people who understand computers are, being able to avoid this confusion.

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Post by orf »

Some of these emails are from disturbed and/or desperate people. [1] and [2] for example. I’m all for having a smirk at some clueless people now and again, but some of these strike a darker tone and it’s a bit unsettling.

At the end of the day it’s sort of his fault for having a domain called “haxx.se”, regardless of if that was his intention or not. Putting emails online of poor people who have found their way to emailing him, desperate to restore their accounts or begging him to not hack them again is… weird.

It’s beyond having a smirk, and putting these confused people’s troubles into some kind of GitHub zoo for us to laugh at feels wrong.

1. https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2023/2023-11-26.m...

2. https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2023/2023-07-16.m...

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Post by Aloha »

"Subject: Just wanted to say you...

I hope you have a really nice day and that nothing is going wrong in your life. Just know that i don't know what you do or who you are and that I just saw your email address and name somewhere"

https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2020/2020-03-21.m...

As someone who has to respond to emails from the public, this one kinda warmed my heart.

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Post by c-smile »

Early version of Sciter was HTMLayout engine where I put my email in dll resources.

That was terrible idea. I did not realize how creative users are to get that email from resources.

HTMLayout was especially popular among shareware INDIE authors - HTML/CSS was easy to create cool looking UI.

So I started to receive tons of emails like "your electronic enlarger is a crap - she is still not satisfied". All such sort of things.

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Post by _vufv »

This one is funny: https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2016/2016-01-19.m...

> ... I came across this information using my Spotify which has also been hacked into and would love your help hacking out of Spotify. Also, I have yet to figure out how to unhack the hackers from my Instagram ...

Re: Emails I Received, the Collection

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

> /2023-07-16.md

     Subject: Breakpad Open Source Project - INFORMATION REQUEST

     I'd like to know who you are.

     Found your Open Source Project tests on my phone 
     and laptop illegally and need to know what you use it for?

     I need a lawyer to sue people who Tazed my dogs to death so I need to know

     WHAT THE FUNCTION OF THIS IS FOR TO ENSURE ELECTRIC CURRENT 
     AND MIT ENGINEERING WITH GOOGLE DEVOPS ISN'T STILL
     BREAKING EVERY LAW, GLOBALLY AND IN THE MILITARY 
     AND POLICE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.

     Copyright (c) 2006, Google Inc.
     All rights reserved.
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