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- aequitas 3y agoThere was this nice talk recently about the history of email and the fun you can have with email addresses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q
- NautilusWave 3y agoAlways use BCC when sending an email to a large mailing list!
- thomasfromcdnjs 3y agoAuto replies would kill it pretty quick. "I am currently on leave" could be the Wikipedia page.
- jraph 3y ago"I'm not using my Gmail address anymore, please contact me at XXX"
- ufjfjjfjfj 3y agoX@domain.com is my address (that was before twitter)
- NooneAtAll3 3y agoreminds me of the hilarious story from the first page of top /r/TalesFromTechSupport https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/420oan/companywide_email_30000_employees_autoresponders/ https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/420oa...
- rcarmo 3y agoThis is a great reminder that Gmail ignores dots on the left side of the @ symbol, which means I am constantly getting e-mail for other people. The “+” tagging was a great idea, but the fact that incorrect address matching has become a “feature” (and not fixed over decades) plus constant spates of spam has made me believe there’s nobody left at the helm who actually understands e-mail. I’ve kept my Gmail addresses for some mailing-lists, but moved everything of consequence to better providers.
- jnrk 3y ago> but moved everything of consequence to better providers. What other providers do you recommend?
- laurentlb 3y agoCan you clarify how ignoring the dots is a problem?
- rcarmo 3y agoI get literally hundreds of unsolicited emails a week.
- adrianmsmith 3y agoOne problem I've encountered is that usually sites won't allow you to register an account if the email address is already registered at that site. So if I register foo@gmail.com then someone else can't accidentally register foo@gmail.com. But they can register f.o.o@gmail.com just fine. So I mean at my Gmail I have all manner of different Facebook accounts with various misspelling of my email address notifying me of stuff, none of them are mine. I'm sure they entered my email address (with dots) by accident, not on purpose. I appreciate that sites not allowing you to register the same email address twice hardly solves everything, as I absolutely get email to my actual correct Gmail address from random sites I've never signed up for. But at least it would help in certain cases like Facebook where I do have an account.
- venusenvy47 3y agoI don't understand how someone could sign up for a site with f.o.o@gmail.com in this example. That person would never receive email from the site (like a confirmation), because the foo@gmail.com owner would receive the confirmation. Doesn't Facebook require confirmation before the account is created?
- londons_explore 3y agoI think you just chose an insufficiently unique email address. I never get any of these problems.
- franze 3y agoAddress not found Your message wasn't delivered to \*@gmail.com because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail. LEARN MORE The response was: 550 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser f15-20020a05651201cf00b00500994b137asor390839lfp.19 - gsmtp
- WithinReason 3y ago[flagged]
- Tobu 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/2822/ https://xkcd.com/2822/ -> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2822 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2822 Any other fun easter eggs in the XKCD counter? - https://xkcd.com/404/ 404s (obviously) - https://xkcd.com/1337/ is about hacking
- jraph 3y agoI can only imagine the code that handles the previous and next buttons and the counter, with all the exceptions there probably are. the next of 403 is correctly 405, which correctly has 403 as its previous.
- Tobu 3y ago404 is handled exceptionally inside the sequence, and for a while it was double-exceptionally possible to land on it through the random button: https://web.archive.org/web/20190328010454/https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts/j6w9DkYApya https://web.archive.org/web/20190328010454/https://plus.goog... (via explainkcd)
- Dudester230602 3y ago[flagged]
- naillo 3y agoxkcd on the HN front page, tech is healing
- quickthrower2 3y agoAI winter imminent
- gadders 3y agoI love a good reply-all email storm. I remember a Lotus Notes-based on in a bank I worked at the early 90's. I think it only stopped when the Chief of Staff did a reply-all with "The next person to reply-all to these emails is sacked."
- aczerepinski 3y agoI’ll never forget the day that there was pizza available on the 10th floor of corporate headquarters and an email sent to thousands of employees who do not work at headquarters.
- eru 3y agoSounds like an invitation to find a PC accidentally left unlocked and sending a joke reply. (Don't do this in real life, please.)
- gadders 3y agoI was like the meme of the guy slapping the big red button trying to stop myself from replying-all with "OK."
- techios1990 3y ago[flagged]
- mabbo 3y ago"If everyone would just stop replying, this would end! Why are you all still hitting reply all?!" -latest reply all on every reply-all storm. In my early days at Amazon, around 2012-2015, this would happen frequently enough [0]. I pretty quickly learned the best thing to do was to ignore the conversation and never think about it again rather than try to 'help'. [0] - too many new products and orgs set up new mailing lists with 5000+ people on it, most of whom had no idea what it was. Growing pains.
- jraph 3y agoNever really happened to me, but Thunderbird has a pretty good feature for this case: "Ignore message thread". I'm sure other mail clients have this feature as well. If someone is bothered by such a thread, it's really easy to avoid.
- bhandziuk 3y agoIf people understood this feature they probably would also understand why they are in a reply-all storm and not need that feature.
- GuB-42 3y agoIt happened to me in a large company I worked with. Someone, probably an admin sent an email to the entire company, literally tens of thousands of people in the "To:" field. Of course, a few of them replied-all, then others replied to tell people to stop replying, etc... The server couldn't follow and mail couldn't be delivered fast enough, prompting even more replies. Email unrelated to the incident took 30 minutes to come through. Admins had to intervene, and the servers were down for about 4 hours, everything related to the incident was deleted server-side, and probably blacklisted too. The client couldn't do much, we didn't even get that many emails (a few dozens at most) since the server couldn't deliver them. It was a very expensive email for sure.
- nytesky 3y agogmail has the “mute” feature single key press ‘m’ away. I admit have been tempted to respond to some reply-all maelstrom mailstorms to herald the mute key…
- mcdonje 3y agoFilter: Subject contains "new friends" Action: Play sound [if working in office], Forward to "[initial sender]", Mark as read, Move to trash
- benrapscallion 3y agoEmails can only be forwarded to verified accounts (i.e, owned by the person setting up the forwarding rule)
- randomcarbloke 3y agoThis happened internally at Reuters, it was hilarious.
- nashashmi 3y agoThis was featured in the early episodes of HBO Newsroom.
- randomcarbloke 3y agoI had no idea! I'll have to try and find that.
- InsomniacL 3y agoI've realized a lot of people don't understand how the gmail dot feature works and blame it for all their problems. If you own foo@gmail.com, you also own every combination of it using dots left of the @. for example: f.oo@gmail.com fo.o@gmail.com Nobody else can register these addresses because they're all owned by foo@gmail.com automatically.
- dismalpedigree 3y agoI don’t think this was always the case. I had two separate accounts around 2007ish. Separate passwords for each. <first>.<last>@gmail.com and <first><last>@gmail.com.
- ludwik 3y agoI registered my Gmail account in September 2004 (so around 3 months after it was publicly introduced) and the ignore-ruled was already in place then. I'm pretty sure what you describe is not possible.
- deelly 3y agoThat's pretty interesting, I just tried it with my aaaaaa@gmail (wrong letters) account. I sent email to aaaaa.a@gmail and to aaa.aaa@gmail and receive both.
- dismalpedigree 3y agoI could be wrong. Its been at least 5 years since I used either of them. I wonder if I had a number or something on one of them.
- pmayrgundter 3y agoThat's just Wall ;)
- drcongo 3y agoIs this funny?
- vidanay 3y agoI'm just dying to click that +Expand button.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoReminded of the NHS "Reply-All hell" from 2016 that crippled a huge chunk of their systems The NHS's 1.2M employees are trapped in a 'reply-all' email hell https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12950830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12950830
- Dudester230602 3y agoWell, they don't shut down things where the user is the product.