On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-01-31 07:52, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: >> FWIW, I have never had this problem. >> >> The vast majority of people here saying they've had this problem are using >> common domains like @gmail.com > > Your combination of names (first, middle?, last) are fairly unique which > partly explains why you have not run into this issue.
A unique (last)name doesn't protect against this completely. I generally use my last name when I create new email accounts. Outside of Norway, that last name is practically non-existent and even there it isn't that common. I've gotten 3 or 4 misdirected emails as result. In my case, it isn't that the person doesn't know their own email; it seems that someone else who wants to send them email just assumes that when they find "bogstad" it must be the person to whom they are trying to send mail (or they just typo it). On the plus side, I learned that I had some relatives in California and North Carolina that I didn't know about and I had a nice email exchange with a gentleman in Belgium. Bill Bogstad (the Bogstad who manages/progams Unix/Linux based computers) [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
