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Re:Show HN: Startup with no website - [email protected] by colechristensen on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:33PM (#19101787)
At this point I feel like I've shared a life with some of the others at this point. There are several people who share my name who continually give out my address. I get school closings, invites to pie socials at churches, family pictures, conservative newsletters, and much more.

Once I was told about "my" enlistment in the reserves of some armed service. That one I replied to and got a very polite response from someone with a little bit of rank.

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Re:Show HN: Startup with no website - [email protected] by ian0 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:42PM (#19101848)
ha! Same here. I was sent notifications from a military application once (seemed to be some SAP style system). I responded to a CCd email and they politely responded and corrected the address.

The others are more mundane. Mailing lists with dirty jokes from a group of american dentist friends. School notifications from a guy in the UK. Random baby pics.

Im not sure if there are lots of people with the same name who occasionally get their mail wrong. Or a few people with the same name who constantly do. It just seems weird though. Surely if you had a non firstname.lastname@gmail address you would take extra care to add in the extra padding.

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Re:Show HN: Startup with no website - [email protected] by vsl on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:08AM (#19112141)
People are stupid when not paying attentions.

I had customers who entered an undeliverable=invalid gmail address because they were confused about who hosts their email. Used [email protected], entered [email protected]. A few years back, I wouldn’t have thought this possible.

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