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my actual name is Firstname Lastname @gmail.com. which trips a lot of people up because Lastname is actually my middle name. and I can't even tell you all the crap Google has been giving me about my last name.
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Goon email lore was solved by IZ some years agoSTONE COLD 64 posted:i was really into mafia and pokemon back in the late 90s and my username was charizardscumhunter@aol.com it wasnt until i signed on that i immediately realized how it could be misread and i started getting flamed in the america online chatrooms i begged my mom to let me change my name but she told me that sometimes we have to live with our poor life choices
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The Atjimail family emigrated from India centuries ago and Google won't leave them alone
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I once used mail.info@post.com as a junk mail address. Wish I still had it, it was so perfectly generic.
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for a long time I had addresswithheld@gmail.com and I will never forgive myself for letting it lapse
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Rockman Reserve posted:for a long time I had addresswithheld@gmail.com and I will never forgive myself for letting it lapse why on earth would you ever let that go lol
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Data Graham posted:And I'm still using a username that I thought was a funny pun in 1994 but is completely nonsensical now. Oh well nothing is to be done We still use the OSI model and refer to the transmission units generally as datagrams, though the word itself IME is rare to come up in the day to day or outside educational materials
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Grassy Knowles posted:We still use the OSI model and refer to the transmission units generally as datagrams, though the word itself IME is rare to come up in the day to day or outside educational materials I didn't even mean my SA username, I meant my primary email address which is a DIFFERENT obsolete and impenetrable pun. My track record is awesome e: I should go back to my 1992-era one, Ray Tracey 
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Nov 13, 2023 17:36
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Calling myself Tokin ring and everyone thinkin I misspelled Tolkein
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Grassy Knowles posted:We still use the OSI model and refer to the transmission units generally as datagrams, though the word itself IME is rare to come up in the day to day or outside educational materials do you ever invoke a layer 8 error?
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PYF Naming Conventions
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Lib and let die posted:do you ever invoke a layer 8 error? Yes Layer 8 and PEBKAC are evergreen
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Grassy Knowles posted:Yes Layer 8 and PEBKAC are evergreen Had to Google layer 8 because I'm not a computer touching pervert but pebcak is a classic Along with GIGO error
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Grassy Knowles posted:Yes Layer 8 and PEBKAC are evergreen always seems a 50/50 shot someone's gonna "get" layer 8 ime
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theflyingexecutive posted:I wanna hear more stories about how goons' email addresses are formatted. Does anyone use periods or other special characters? What about goons who have a common name or were the first to get a common word as an email address? Does that ever come with any whacky hijinks with unexpected emails? What hosting providers do y'all use? Yeah, I was the first to sign up for gmail with my particular firstname.lastname and it happens like once a year. So far I've gotten - questions about when I was going to chip in for some birthday dinner of a few Dutch boomers - an accidental family therapy appointment for father & daughter (I don't have kids) - a lady e-mailing "me" to say how much she enjoyed our date and that she was looking forward to the next one - someone asking me whether "I was already in the caravan" (?!)
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I just signed up as lastname@gmail.com during the early beta waves and I get a lot of random stuff for other people, it's remarkable how bad everyone is at emails. So many airline/campground/hotel/rental car reservations, endless mails from Sunday schools, vacation photos, etc
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I found an old article the other day... for context, Dutch postcodes are 4 digits followed by 2 letters, and are precise enough that a postcode + house number combination uniquely identifies an address, and if the street name is invalid, as long as the postcode + house number is correct, mail will still be delivered. The article was about someone who apparently actually lived at postcode 1234 AB and house number 123, which was perfectly fine when it was assigned back in the 1980s. But, about 10 years ago, they kept getting more and more weird stuff. Letters about basically anything. Power suddenly shut down because someone testing the form at the power company's website used 1234 AB. And so on. Since then, it looks like they reassigned the postcode region and reserved 1234 AB as permanently unused.
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Reminds me of the guy who thought he was smart by getting the license plate "NULL" thinking they wouldn't be able to ticket him. Turns out by doing that, he was on the hook for every ticket that had an invalid or blank plate.
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Little Bobby Plates
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Should’ve filed a namechange
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BonHair posted:I use my work email. I have zero relations outside of work, so I just replace my entire social circle when I change jobs.  this is perversion!I'm continually amazed at how many people use their work email for things like online gambling, subscription sites and job hunting.
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Radio Paranoia posted:
lol owns
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Azhais posted:I just signed up as lastname@gmail.com during the early beta waves and I get a lot of random stuff for other people, it's remarkable how bad everyone is at emails. So many airline/campground/hotel/rental car reservations, endless mails from Sunday schools, vacation photos, etc When I was in grad school, I got messages meant for a prof with a name similar to mine but not exactly mine. It was mildly irritating but it didn’t happen often. Until the guy’s kid thought he used his dad’s email to sign up for some Disney mobile gaming thing, but used mine instead. God dammit.   Not sure if this counts as a meme, but it’s A Thing 
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BonHair posted:I use my work email. I have zero relations outside of work, so I just replace my entire social circle when I change jobs. This is the way.
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Nov 13, 2023 19:47
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Why? Fuckem, that's why :rad:
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Radio Paranoia posted:
To be fair, cutting ties with your gambling habit every job change seems good, and generally speaking, your job hunting stops being relevant for a while when you're starting a new job.
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Hyperlynx posted:I'm firstname@firstnamelastname.com If you have a Gmail account, you can do that now without managing a bunch of inboxes. Just add "+whatever" after you email before the "@gmail" part. It will all go into the "base" inbox. So, with myemail@gmail.com you can sign up with myemail+facebook@gmail.com and this email will still go into myemail@gmail.com, but show up as myemail+facebook@gmail.com. That way you can see who has been selling your data since their db will capture the full email, and will alsobe able to create labels to easily filter out garbage.
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Velocity Raptor posted:If you have a Gmail account, you can do that now without managing a bunch of inboxes. Just add "+whatever" after you email before the "@gmail" part. It will all go into the "base" inbox. Less importantly, periods are removed from gmail addresses. myemail@gmail.com and my.email@gmail.com go to the same place, in the event that whatever site you are signing up to doesn't allow plus addressing.
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shazbot posted:Less importantly, periods are removed from gmail addresses. myemail@gmail.com and my.email@gmail.com go to the same place, in the event that whatever site you are signing up to doesn't allow plus addressing. This was not true at the onset of gmail so there at least were at one point legacy accounts that only differed by . Placement
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Lol stfu nerds
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https://i.imgur.com/X6c3J6X.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/2l4qJnW.mp4
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hey did anybody ever have an aim away message haha what was that like haha
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root beer posted:When I was in grad school, I got messages meant for a prof with a name similar to mine but not exactly mine. It was mildly irritating but it didn’t happen often. Until the guy’s kid thought he used his dad’s email to sign up for some Disney mobile gaming thing, but used mine instead. God dammit. My personal highlight was when a professor in Florida got the email wrong on a handout and I got ~600 resumes for a medical scribe internship  https://i.imgur.com/L0H1HVK.mp4
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gently caress@you.cum
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