What do you do with misdirected email?
Posted: February 13th, 2008 | Author: Dan Misener | Filed under: CBC, Radio, email | 3 Comments »For a few months now, I’ve been getting email addressed to my dmisener@gmail.com account from a guy named Keith. The emails haven’t been for me, but rather for someone named Diane Misener. Apparently we have very similar email addresses.
For months, I simply deleted Keith’s email. I know I shouldn’t have, but I deleted the first one because it was one of those joke email forwards that people send around, and I figured it was just a mistake. Then another one arrived, and another one, and I deleted those too. Eventually it got to the point where I couldn’t contact Keith to explain the mistake, because doing so would mean admitting I’d silently deleted all of his email to Diane.
Eventually, I started to feel pretty bad about all of this, so I phoned up Keith and Diane. The whole story is on this week’s episode of Spark.
Funny thing, you’ll notice that I’m Craigmillett1@hotmail.com, that’s because a british kid had already taken craigmillett@hotmail.com. Once, one of my friends mistakenly sent him an e-mail and he replied in a very cross manner… I then e-mailed him an angry e-mail about it. We’ve since chatted through e-mail and messenger, we even had a “Craig Milletts United” facebook group, before I got off facebook…
I get emails for a Hilary Green in Oregon who is in a Christian Choir. Both her family and the church continue to send me emails despite me reminding them that I am not said “Hilary Green.” It has something to do with the way gmail recognized dots in email addresses.
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