On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 4:29 PM Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I know someone living in NZ who overnight received a "one hour from now" reminder of a COVID test for someone in the UK who occasionally mistypes their own gmail address. (A test booked on Christmas day???)
The consequences of a typing error in a call sign are potentially serious. In this case, we can only hope that the person didn't miss their test.
Regards
Brian
On 26-Dec-21 09:21, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> Hi -
>
> On 2021-12-25 12:00 PM, John Levine wrote:
> ...
>> I get an endless stream of mail intended for people with names similar
>> to mine who imagine that my address is their address. I don't see why
>> the situation here would be any different.
>
> Indeed, even in the case of someone fortunate to have a relatively
> uncommon family name, like me. It turns out there is even another
> Randy Presuhn, roughly the same age as me, my second cousin in Iowa.
> For my husband, with the exceedingly common family name of Nguyen,
> there appear to be countless collisions just within the context of
> our city, much less world-wide. The considerations keep pushing
> in the general direction of X.500, but we know how well that has
> worked out so far...
>
> Randy
>
