The 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 sam

The 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.