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This is probably the best case for giving your child a "unique" name. I would have also probably changed my name after the first occurrence.
by Asooka 10y ago
This is probably the best case for giving your child a "unique" name. I would have also probably changed my name after the first occurrence.
- Bartweiss 10y agoIt's pretty sad that my email address is a better unique identifier than most of the values the government tries to use. I suppose it's an incentives thing - if I give different emails for different events, that's a problem for the government. If they have multiple people 'assigned' to my name and birthdate, that's my problem. But it's still damned sad that they're using an identifier which isn't even close to unique for topics this important.
- jessaustin 10y agoI regularly get notices for children's sports leagues, drugs available for pickup at pharmacy, updates to apartment rental procedures, etc. for others who believe they have my email address. All because I have a simple first.last@gmail.com address, rather than something with goofy numbers appended.
- Fuzzwah 10y agoI've been dealing something similar for years now. There is a guy out there who thinks that his email address is firstlast@gmail.com, however I've had the first.last@gmail.com version of the address from back before google decided that the dots didn't matter any more. It appears to me that google merged the addresses but he still continues to use the dotless address when signing up for things. It amazes me that he thinks it works, surely none of the email ever gets to it? I've tracked him down on facebook and got a message to him via his wife.... but it continues to happen. Which makes me wonder if somehow sometimes it does work for him?
- jessaustin 10y agoFor me it certainly isn't one person. These odd messages are coming from all over the English-speaking world.
- pbiggar 10y agoAre you sure that google ever "merged" the dot and non-dot versions? As I recall (and I remember finding about that dots don't matter over a decade ago), it was like this since gmail launched?
- flukus 10y agoI have a pretty unique email address (you'd probably guess it) but somehow I once ended up on the LA Bar association mailing list.
- compsciphd 10y agocould be worse. I'm <first initial><last name>@gmail.com.
- mojomark 10y ago> I would have also probably changed my name after the first occurrence. There was nothing wrong with my name, until I was about 12 years old and that no talent ass clown became famous and started oppressing his people. No way, why should I change? He's the one who sucks.