At $previousjob, I used to get nastygrams from Mark Jacobs - Photographer who got upset that he received technical emails meant for me.
Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, April 22, 2019 11:33 AM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > >It would be nice if people would report it when they get output that they > >don't know what it is. > > Report it to whom? Often no way to tell. But yeah. > > Sort-of-related: In a large company, there may be two or more people named > Joe Blow. You'd think that they'd be sensitive to the existence of each > other, would forward misdirected email. You'd often be wrong. > > When we got acquired by a much larger company, I immediately looked, found > there were now four Phil Smiths, so I emailed the other three. One responded > cheerfully; the other two, nada. Bizarre. There was also a "me" who'd left; I > inherited his email address (which wasn't supposed to be possible) and he had > several personal things connected to that address, which I could probably > have parlayed into something profitable, had I been so inclined. And there's > also another phsiii on Gmail who doesn't know his own email address; I could > have cancelled his car appointment, his dental appointment, and his wife's > college reunion. That mail continues, is a small source of amusement. I > wonder whether he even realizes how much he's missing! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
