On 09/29/14 10:06, Nicolai wrote:
Most likely reason: gmail is so common that someone mistypes johnsm...@example.com as johnsm...@gmail.com, not paying attention to what they're doing. It happens.
More likely, I think, is that newbies think that email addresses already exist for everyone on the planet at firstl...@gmail.com, and they just give that when asked (maybe they think it's throwaway and never actually expect to get any email there). I'm in the same boat. It doesn't bother me all that much because gmail is not my primary mail service. I use it to store big stuff that's clogging the mail service I do pay for. In fact, it can be entertaining, as I get usernames and passwords for sites that this guy signed up for. He's also a poker player and has recently tried to enroll at an art college. The latter I could reply to and explain that their prospective student is an idiot and should not be accepted, but that's what will happen anyway if I don't say anything.
-- Jeff Woolsey {woolsey,jlw}@{jlw,jxh}.com first.last@{gmail,jlw}.com Spum bad keming. Nature abhors a straight antenna, a clean lens, and unused storage capacity. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management "Card sorting, Joel." -me, re Solitaire