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> Any one email address refers to only one single person This one hit me. My grandparents share a computer and one email address (just as they share one physic
by tomjen3 4y ago
> Any one email address refers to only one single person
This one hit me. My grandparents share a computer and one email address (just as they share one physical address and phone number), you wouldn't believe how many services, including Google, fails this rather simple test.
And in case you think this is a weird one: until not that long ago, every way to contact people where to the house they stayed in. Letters typically had a name, but if you were married and had shared accounts, either person could need to read those letters.
- degrees57 4y agoMildly interesting problem: law says email with financial information needs to be encrypted. Email goes from the Accounts Payable clerk to Verizon Accounts Receivable, but triggers the automatic encryption process. One needs to create a free login and read the email in the (secure) web portal. Verizon complains. Talk with the Verizon AR manager and he tells me "I have 40 people who access that mailbox; I am NOT going to create a username and password in your system and then share that with those 40 people. What happens next week, when one of them leaves?"