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I have (my legal name)@gmail.com and I occasionally get mail for people with the same name. Usually I just send a polite response or flag it as spam; but the t

• arsome 6y ago
  Yikes, that seems like it could slip into a patient privacy violation of some sort pretty easily. What did the doctor say?
  • kstrauser 6y ago
    Not really. If the patient asked the doctor to be contacted at that address, the doctor’s not on the hook for obeying their wishes.
    • gwbas1c 6y ago
      It came from the doctor's phone. I suspect there was a miscommunication somewhere. I've only done "polite" replies if there's clear innocence. One was to a teenager trying to guess email addresses for people involved in a college program they wanted to attend. Another was a Canadian regional employment authority trying to collect back wages from a deadbeat employer. But someone uses my email address at a repair shop, salon, ect? Ignore. Someone puts my email address into a group discussion? Spam. I also own my own domain. (legal name)@gmail.com sat idle for years until I found that it's easier to say "(legal name)@gmail.com" instead of ??????@(legal name).com Then I switched.
• kranner 6y ago
  > I have (my legal name)@gmail.com and I occasionally get mail for people with the same name. Same here. In the last few years, I've had a Toyota dealer send me quotes for new cars ("as per our meeting yesterday"), I've been looped into ongoing business conversations about negotiating bulk rates for importing doodads from China, and have even received a job offer as a junior dealer at a brokerage. This last one had a CV for the job applicant attached so I could see the applicant's actual address and forwarded the mail to them.