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(The New Yorker)   Man squats a dictionary-word gmail address in 2004 and forgets about it. Finds 4,382 unread messages, 9 years later. For the New Yorker, this is a shocking story   (newyorker.com) divider line 11
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  2013-04-10 10:49:16 AM
3 votes:
Wait until they see how much junk mail it gets NOW.
  2013-04-10 12:19:21 PM
2 votes:
He should have picked "­colo­ssa­l­_­douch­e[nospam-﹫-backwards]liam­g*c­o­m"
  2013-04-10 12:16:42 PM
2 votes:
I read this as a man squatted on a dictionary.
  2013-04-10 10:06:43 AM
2 votes:
I hate to say it, but I'm going to use this as my throwaway now.
  2013-04-10 01:12:29 PM
1 votes:
What's funny is I accidentally got an email intended for someone else from a princess in Nigeria.

She is going to give me €15 million if I help her get her money out of the country. All I need to dois Western Union her a few thousand dollars.

How lucky am I?
  2013-04-10 01:01:16 PM
1 votes:
Loadmaster: four thousand three hundred and eighty-two
nine hundred and forty-one
thousand two hundred and sixty-six

I really hate it when "literate" people insist on spelling out long numbers. It's about as bad as not using capitalization or punctuation.


that style is standard for professional writing  numbers under ten are written as a digit and numbers over 9 are spelled out  however i do think the word and is extraneous and could create ambiguity
  2013-04-10 12:38:57 PM
1 votes:
That article was boring as balls.  Did anyone read the whole thing?  Did anything interesting end up happening?
  2013-04-10 12:18:52 PM
1 votes:
It must be a fun to have a personality that can see something completely useless and mundane and perceive something amazing out of it.  A sort of "underlying mechanisms of the universe" gestalt that you find truly remarkable.

I don't have that personality...so this guy is just mildly annoying.
  2013-04-10 12:12:07 PM
1 votes:
Just 4382? Amateur.
  2013-04-10 11:28:19 AM
1 votes:
Yet he still got more BIE than subby.
  2013-04-10 11:11:02 AM
1 votes:
I have a not common, but, not uncommon name that I made as my gmail name, and even though I have a different gmail account now, I have stuff sent to that fwd to my current gmail acct.   I get stuff all the time sent to "other" people with that name.   Even more odd though that the "parents" of other people with my name sending me vacation photos is what are obviously people WITH my name, using the email address as their email address on their airline reservations, online website orders, etc.  And it isn't like they used my CC or anything, they were just too careless to not use their middle initial or number or whatever they probably have that distinguishes their gmail address from mine when setting up the acct.

I've generally just let those go, and unsubscribed the email address to the websites, although I was tempted one time to reroute some cool looking RC helicopters someone bought from QVC to my house.
 
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