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With Google Now's design, as soon as emails for other folks are splashing into yours it's game over. I'd have been hyper-aggressive about blocking/fixing all su
by syntheticnature 9y ago
With Google Now's design, as soon as emails for other folks are splashing into yours it's game over. I'd have been hyper-aggressive about blocking/fixing all such, and probably still would've given up, given a past experience trying to help a friend with a common first initial-last name combo, and he had a number after that part of the username!
- dguaraglia 9y agoIs that a real problem? I guess I have a unique-enough name (but, surprisingly, not completely unique as it turns out there's another guy with exactly the same name in San Francisco) that it's never been a thing for me.
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- syntheticnature 9y agoThe real problem seems to arise not from name confusion, but email confusion; I don't even think the person my friend was having the biggest problem had the same first name, just the same initial. Imagine if, for example, your email was duaraglia57@gmail and there was someone who had duaraglia57@yahoo but kept typing gmail accidentally, and you get the picture. Far too many sites fail to validate a correct email address in all aspects.
- dguaraglia 9y agoRight, that'd make sense. I would imagine once you get a few emails that weren't intended for you, the Google Now map of interests gets all borked. If the problem is common enough, I'm sure the Google Now people would love to know.
- kraig911 9y agoVery real. Problem. We all have very similar email address mrjohnsmith, johnsmith1981, itsjohnsmith people are sending them emails to the right address I'm just getting their messages...