“I have toyota corola”

Re:“I have toyota corola” by koolba on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:28AM (#12949961)

Kind of a pain in the ass to do retroactively, but one approach to prevent this to have your email address be random gibberish.

Whereas "[email protected]" (or more likely gmail.com) can be arrived at by multiple people named "Firstname Lastname", you don't have to worry about it if your email address is generated via:

    echo "$(< /dev/urandom tr -dc a-z0-9 | head -c 12)@example.com"

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Re:“I have toyota corola” by nucleardog on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:38PM (#12954003)

Yes, then every time I need to give someone my email in person or over the phone I just need to say "it's two zed six bee oh, sorry, zero, you ess eight see why you are at example dot com". And then they're going to read it back to me and pretty much invariably have something incorrect. And then I'll have to read it to them again.

You'd be better off taking an "xkcd" or "gfycat" approach and making your e-mail "[email protected]" or "[email protected]".

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Re:“I have toyota corola” by koolba on Thursday November 17, 2016 @05:12PM (#12982217)

How often are you verbally giving your email over the phone that this an issue? Unless you're ordering daily from the Home Shopping Network and want to get an email receipt, what's the big deal? In my experience either I'm entering my email in a web page form or texting it to the other person.

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