Gmail rant!

Elliot6267 said:
i have a friend who has a similar problem. he has the same name as somebody who's writing a book about sarah palin, and some tv show in America gave the wrong email address out and told them to send him hate mail!
1. why is a tv show telling people to do that?!
2. check the god damn email address!

however, in this instance i find it amusing
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Haha, that's terrible but I can't help laughing at it either! :D
 
Mammalian said:
:p don't worry. you buy a domain name and then that's it, it's yours for life as long as you keep renewing it for roughly £8 per year. i think .it has some strict rules about being based in Italy but that's it.
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I'll have to look into it then! Is that also the case for stuff like .org and .net?
 
Elliot6267 said:
i have a friend who has a similar problem. he has the same name as somebody who's writing a book about sarah palin, and some tv show in America gave the wrong email address out and told them to send him hate mail!
1. why is a tv show telling people to do that?!
2. check the god damn email address!

however, in this instance i find it amusing
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If that happened to me I would reply to a few of them :p
 
I keep getting texts and calls to my mobile from some woman wanting "Marianne"

I have told her she's dialled the number wrong countless times so the next time she tries again I'll just say Marianne died that morning via auto erotic asphyxiation and hang up >_<
 
I've got this same issue

signed up at the start and have a common [email protected] address

it seems I share the same firstname.lastname as a rather rich person from north america

I've also had problems as some muppet in the US who shares the same firstname.lastname and has tried to register them has ended up registering:

[email protected]

dropping the first letter of his first name

of course half his friends (and a few of his customers from his business) still send mail to
[email protected] - I try to reply to some but other mails just get left/ignored
 
manveruppd said:
That's not the way it works iirc, you get a numerical code that you enter on their website before you get the password reminder. Something like that anyway.
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What? He never even mentioned how anything works, just said how bad an idea it is. I agree with him, you're remembering incorrectly! :P
Edit: Unless we don't understand what you meant by back up emails, which generally is another way to get your password should you have no access to the original account and don't know your secret answer.

Which she'll do in a heartbeat when things go south. ;)
 
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I get the same problem here - get some guys savings / bank account statements etc. Have emailed the banks and what not, but no reply. Also have told his friends, but they never seem to pass it on, so I've taken to deleting his account on various things when I get spammed.
 
I have my first name @hotmail.co.uk , which in the UK is a girl's name

That address doesn't get used anymore, as I get so many e-mails for other people , and so so many people adding me on MSN every couple of days saying that they met me on a dating site or whatever.

Gets pretty annoying ! Also trying to sign up to facebook with that address etc.
 
kibblerok said:
I too am getting sick of it as I have firstname.lastname although according to google firstnamelastname also works without the dot (I receive emails to both). it's happening so often I sometimes ponder whether they are actually able to see these emails too.
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That is true, I sent a test e-mail to myself from work but forgot the fullstop between first name and last name. The E-Mail still arrived in my inbox.
 
Same problem here, mine is just my first name and the first letter of my surname @gmail.com, unfortunately there are about 5 ways of spelling my first name. I think what is happening is that call centres are just guessing which version of my name to use instead of asking the customer how they spell it.

Looking back on it I'm glad I decided to use the first letter of my surname in it...means I'm only getting 1/26th of the possible wrong emails!!
 
manveruppd said:
I'll have to look into it then! Is that also the case for stuff like .org and .net?
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Yes - buy the domain and keep renewing. I've been doing this for years. My email address doesn't change regardless of which free webmail provider I decide to use.
 
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