Feb 21 2010

Today in Misdirected GMail

Category: MusingsBill Mason @ 8:58 pm
  • I have someone’s sign-on credentials for a United Kingdom-based web site (I wrote the web site to tell them)
  • There’s an important meeting concerning someone running for Governor of Pennsylvania tomorrow that I’m urged to attend. Alas, that’s too far a commute for me.

Tune in next time for more fun with people who don’t know what their email address is…..

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Feb 19 2010

The generic GMail trap

Category: MusingsBill Mason @ 12:42 am

I’ve learned something from having a fairly generically named GMail address. And by generic, I mean someone uncomplicated like “jdoe” for example. Meanwhile, what I’ve learned is: a lot of people don’t know their friends’ email address. Or sometimes, don’t know their own!

I don’t use my GMail for my day-to-day email, or for much of anything except a conduit to using GTalk, I suppose. But besides tons of spam, I receive genuine, misaddressed email of all sorts. Order receipts, newsletters, pizza order confirmations, etc.

So I’m going to start recording it for posterity, because why not?

Today’s entry is an ecard from “Sweetie” (really). I don’t want to view the actual ecard. I don’t want to trash privacy completely. I’ll just note to Sweetie that wherever you are, your sweetness misfired. Hopefully it works out.

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