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Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by gcb0 on Sunday April 28, 2013 @11:48AM (#5621621)
And same as the article, i never get to know the idiots email address they are trying to register mine as the password recovery. That's the dumbest on googles side. Makes me powerless to solve the idiocy dos attack on my account
Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by furyofantares on Sunday April 28, 2013 @01:08PM (#5621917)
Why do you repeatedly call them idiots and refer to this behavior as idiocy?
Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by laurenia on Sunday April 28, 2013 @02:13PM (#5622127)
I've gotten everything from business plans to divorce papers sent to my [email protected] address. In some cases I've tracked them down and called their cell phones, and they still mistakenly send me email. There are some people whose email automatically gets re-routed to the 'correct' account with a note, and they continue to use my email address. Some have even sent me nasty emails saying they're blocking my address, as if I am to blame somehow for their incompetence.

I understand that people make mistakes and typos happen. But when you're dealing with legal documents there's no excuse for this kind of oversight.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by kaybe on Sunday April 28, 2013 @07:13PM (#5623211)
> There are some people whose email automatically gets re-routed to the 'correct' account with a note..

How does that work? Have you created some sort of filter? (How do you make sure that it gets the correct emails?)

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by laurenia on Monday April 29, 2013 @01:33PM (#5627549)
Yes, I've created a filter so that any emails from certain people automatically get re-routed to the intended recipient.
Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by mpyne on Sunday April 28, 2013 @01:30PM (#5621992)
Because it's the near-equivalent of misspelling your name on an exam, at least when it's entering your own email address.

On the flipside I sometimes get mails intended for someone else with my name in Australia, but that is easy enough to assume that his friends/kids' teachers/etc. just manually typed in the address and messed it up.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by jere on Sunday April 28, 2013 @01:43PM (#5622019)
Oh, you'll love this one. I was sent a notice that my car was ready to pick up, but it was for a guy that lives in Canada and has a similar name/email.

I respond saying the shop has the wrong email address. The shop owner (let's call him Bob) replies saying "that's the one you gave me" facepalm #1

I find the car owner and forward him the info on facebook. He responds back saying "Thanks, Bob." Even though the message is clearly from me. facepalm #2

Even if these people were completely tech illiterate... have they never heard of a wrong number?!?

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by maxerickson on Sunday April 28, 2013 @08:42PM (#5623516)
I got added to a Black Board announcement list for some school. They don't seem to have a way to say 'stop sending this address mail'. I'm cranky, so I emailed the dean of student affairs about it.

He emailed back as if I were a student. I responded pointing out that I had no association with the school. He emailed back asking me to explain further, as there was someone with my name at the school. So I explained that I thought it was probably someone with the same name. At least that ended it.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by CamperBob2 on Sunday April 28, 2013 @05:19PM (#5622819)
(Shrug) There has to be some way to distinguish their behavior from people who actually bother to understand what email addresses are before using email.

Calling them either "Idiots" or "Dumb users" seems reasonable, so why not roll with it?

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by raganwald on Sunday April 28, 2013 @05:33PM (#5622863)
That's the most arrogant thing I've read in a while. The fat that someone doesn't comprehend something technical makes them inexperienced. Computer literacy is literacy.

Would you call someone who can't drive a car an idiot? Or someone who is using an ATM machine for the first time? These people are not competent. They are inexperienced. But a pejorative term like "idiot" isn't called for.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by jlgreco on Sunday April 28, 2013 @06:30PM (#5623073)
These people, for the most part, do not respond or even seem to comprehend correction. They seem to be the same people that refuse to understand what is going on when they dial a wrong number: "Hey Stan! What's goi-" "I am not Stan. You have the wrong number." "No, this is Stan's number." "....click"

If you can't apply the term "idiots" to these people then the word is useless and can never be used.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by kmm on Sunday April 28, 2013 @06:23PM (#5623044)
> Would you call someone who can't drive a car an idiot?

I would if this person was out on the highway. I learned to drive on a parking lot, and then on roads with very little traffic. People who can't drive are a danger to themselves. People who are too incompetent to know what their correct email address is are a danger to themselves too.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by CamperBob2 on Sunday April 28, 2013 @06:14PM (#5623010)
Would you call someone who can't drive a car an idiot?

Sure, if they didn't even attempt to learn to drive before getting behind the wheel.

Or someone who is using an ATM machine for the first time?

Sure, if their failure to use even the most elementary mental faculties available to them affected anyone other than themselves.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by PedroBatista on Sunday April 28, 2013 @01:28PM (#5621986)
Oh boy! so many "idiots" and "dumb people" in your world, they don't deserve you believe me.

Next time call the Internet Police on those fkers!!

You are fantastic, cheers.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by fakeer on Sunday April 28, 2013 @01:43PM (#5622018)
I get bank statements and postpaid mobile bills. When I wrote a bank (Kotak, India) the executive's first reaction was - "please contact the user" - of course I had mentioned in the email that I've no idea who the intended recipient(Some one in Pune, India) is. I finally had to set a filter and take a vow that I can never be this bank's customer and I ought to quit if my firm decides to tie up with them for salary a/c.

There's Tata Docomo who sends me monthly postpaid bill. I've learened two things from their emails - that gentleman in Nagpur is very irresponsible in paying bills and that Tata Docomo's spam filters are so strong my email never made it them. They keep on sending. I guess they shall send me the calls records if I request to this email.

My fault? I've one of the most famous/common Indian/Hindi names on Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo and domain name too - both .in and .com.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by jussij on Sunday April 28, 2013 @08:29PM (#5623476)
> I get bank statements and postpaid mobile bills.

Most such e-mail traffic is just spam, not sent by the banks, but sent by people hoping to trick the recipitent into reading the e-mail, following the link and logging into a false web page set up to act like the bank web site.

Once they have your logon details they will go to the real bank page and transfer out your money.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by hfsktr on Sunday April 28, 2013 @09:14PM (#5623593)
The most amazing thing is that even though most of it is spam not all of it is. I get monthly emails telling me about various bills or status of from at least my internet, cell phone, and student loans. Pretty sure none have a copy of the bill and ask me to follow a link to log in.

I don't click on most email links because you never know if it's the scammer or the company.

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by fakeer on Sunday April 28, 2013 @09:43PM (#5623655)
>Most such e-mail traffic is just spam

Of course. But it's a real bank statement and it's a real mobile bill that makes its way into my inbox each month. Used to, I mean before I created a filter to delete it as soon as it arrives.