[lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem

I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am firstname.lastn...@gmail.com and I occasionally get email to firstnamelastn...@gmail.com but this is different person. I discovered it with a Vendor rewards accou

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Crocker, Deborah wrote: > I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am > firstname.lastn...@gmail.com and I occasionally get email to > firstnamelastn...@gmail.com but this is different person. I think the real problem must be something different;

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I believe it's a Gmail thing as I get both leamhall (standard) and leam.hall stuff. Leam On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Crocker, Deborah wrote: > I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am > firstname.lastn...@gmail.com and I occasionally get email to > firstnamelastn...@gmail

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Known issue, Gmail drops dots. Elijah.wright and elijahwright go to the same place. Yup, pretty annoying --e On Friday, January 23, 2015, Crocker, Deborah wrote: > I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am > firstname.lastn...@gmail.com > and I > occasionally get emai

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Yup, this. Only recourse, as I see it, is one of the following: 1) Contact the senders and let them know that address doesn't belong to who they think it does. Encourage them to notify the correct person. 2) Try and contact the other person and get them to stop giving out that email 3) Create a fi

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This is a feature, as far as Gmail is concerned. Firstnamelastname, firstname.lastname, and fir.stna.me.l.a.s.t.na.me are all the same – they implicitly strip periods from their addresses. You can use this for things like subtle sender tracking (put the period in different places for different

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So, why did they allow both accounts to be created? These are duplicate accounts. Or maybe they didn’t and this other person just thinks that is their account? They sure have used it in some sensitive places. -- *** Deborah

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Crocker, Deborah wrote: > Or maybe they didn’t and this other person just thinks that is their > account? Yes, that's what is happening. They would not permit both first.last@gmail and firstlast@gmail to be registered separately. -Erik ___

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Chances are, the other person just doesn’t know their own email address. As someone with a very common name, I get things clearly intended for other people almost daily; end-users are sometimes silly. David Smith From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] O

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Crocker, Deborah wrote: > So, why did they allow both accounts to be created? These are duplicate > accounts. Or maybe they didn’t and this other person just thinks that is > their account? They sure have used it in some sensitive places. That is why I said "so

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem

FYI: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en is right up this question's alley. On Jan 28, 2015 9:27 AM, "Crocker, Deborah" wrote: > I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am > firstname.lastn...@gmail.com and I occasionally get email to > firstnamelastn...@gmail.com

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Smith, David wrote: > Chances are, the other person just doesn’t know their own email address. > As someone with a very common name, I get things clearly intended for other > people almost daily; end-users are sometimes silly. > > > > As someone with an UNcommon

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Thanks all – I’ll try to contact vendors for anything sensitive and ignore the rest, I guess. -- *** Deborah Crocker, Ph.D. deborah.croc...@ua.edu

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Crocker, Deborah writes: >So, why did they allow both accounts to be created? These are duplicate >accounts. Or maybe they didn’t and this other person just thinks that >is their account? They sure have used it in some sensitive places. http://xkcd.com/1279/

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Op 28 jan. 2015 20:15 schreef "Steve VanDevender" < ste...@hexadecimal.uoregon.edu> het volgende: > > Crocker, Deborah writes: > >So, why did they allow both accounts to be created? These are duplicate > >accounts. Or maybe they didn’t and this other person just thinks that > >is the

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+1 on this comment - I am always getting other people's email. It's really awesome when the other dquinn's in the world sign up for all sorts of dating services, and then use the wrong address. I leave my gmail account up on our home computer, and my wife was "nonplussed" to see all these notifi

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This conversation has convinced me that I should go make a filter that matches to:elijahwri...@gmail.com , and push all of those into a box labeled "probably-misdirected-email" ... --e On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Dana Quinn wrote: > +1 on this comment - I am always getting other people's

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I get all sorts of mail intended for a chap who happens to spell his last name differently than the traditional Irish spelling..he lives in Dublin..you can see where this is going. Most people default to spelling it a certain way, sending mail to me. This has also happened to my brother! FWIW he's

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Aren't you glad Dawn Quinn isn't signing up for dating sites with the wrong e-mail address? ;) Leam On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Dana Quinn wrote: > +1 on this comment - I am always getting other people's email. It's really > awesome when the other dquinn's in the world sign up for all so

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This actually seems to work -- I was a little concerned that maybe their filter code would pick up my legit elijah.wri...@gmail.com address and strip the dots out... Interestingly filtering to:elijahwri...@gmail.com seems to also pick up elijahwright+elijahyoutu...@gmail.com -- which AFAIR is som

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I only ever see this with my gmail account, but I guess that's more a reflection of the popularity of gmail than anything else. There is a Paul Graydon in Canada that keeps using my email address in the most remarkably sensitive places. It also disturbs me quite what levels of business (and s

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Just like to add that if anyone knows a senior member of the LDS church in the UK with the same name as me, tell him that BMW has been suggesting his wife upgrade her car, the swim team fundraising has been going well, and that his son’s loan for university housing seems to be going through.

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Fifteen years ago, I had a vanity domain ending in .org. Someone else had the same domain, but the .com version. We got each other’s emails all the time. Email addresses are hard! David Smith From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Graham Dun

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On 01/28/15 12:19, Graham Dunn wrote: Just like to add that if anyone knows a senior member of the LDS church in the UK with the same name as me, tell him that BMW has been suggesting his wife upgrade her car, the swim team fundraising has been going well, and that his son’s loan for university h