[174768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Woolsey)
Mon Sep 29 19:19:20 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:17:15 -0700
From: Jeff Woolsey <jlw@jlw.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20140929170629.GA23632@vectra.student.iastate.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 09/29/14 10:06, Nicolai wrote:
> Most likely reason: gmail is so common that someone mistypes
> johnsmith@example.com as johnsmith@gmail.com, not paying attention to
> what they're doing. It happens.
More likely, I think, is that newbies think that email addresses already
exist for everyone on the planet at firstlast@gmail.com, and they just
give that when asked (maybe they think it's throwaway and never actually
expect to get any email there). I'm in the same boat. It doesn't
bother me all that much because gmail is not my primary mail service. I
use it to store big stuff that's clogging the mail service I do pay
for. In fact, it can be entertaining, as I get usernames and passwords
for sites that this guy signed up for. He's also a poker player and has
recently tried to enroll at an art college. The latter I could reply to
and explain that their prospective student is an idiot and should not be
accepted, but that's what will happen anyway if I don't say anything.
--
Jeff Woolsey {woolsey,jlw}@{jlw,jxh}.com first.last@{gmail,jlw}.com
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