On 25/12/2021 21:28, Brian E Carpenter 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???)
Of course. The UK cannot spell omicron but can panic over it.
Vaccination stations and testing stations were widely open on December
25th. Whether they will attract millions of customers or only hundreds
thousands I do not know - one day last week saw 968,000 vaccinations -
but with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland now in lockdown, the UK PM
is desperate not to have to impose such on England; the history of 12
months ago is a case study in how not to run a country:-(
Tom Petch
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
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