eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
That's sad.A few years back this happened to me when I was using Hotmail for my email. As an early adopter my Hotmail address was firstnamesurname@hotmail.com. It was a bit heartbreaking though. A father trying to get hold of his son who shares my name. At first I ignored the messages thinking they were spam, but increasingly they became pleas for replies, with the Dad apologising profusely for something that had happened between them and telling what he thought was his son how much he loved him and wished him to be happy.
So I responded, just letting him know that he had the wrong person, how sorry I was about the situation, and how I hoped they would be able to contact each other and sort things out. Obviously I never heard back after that, but I do sometimes wonder if it all worked out OK. Really hope it did.
One of those things you can only hope worked out.
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At the time I got this address (1999) I was hoping my name was unique enough to allow me just to use my last name. Nope. Numbers were suggested, so I had to settle for my second choice.There's something to be said for using numbers at the end of an email address. I use an odd combination, and I think that's largely why I'm not bothered. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Little did I know then that several people out there shared my exact first name and last name. When most of the people you grow up with have common names you begin to think yours isn't so common only to find out it's common enough later on.
Had I to do it over again and knowing what I know now, I'd choose something else.