This is something the WSJ decides to write an article on? Man, journalistic standards have really gone down-hill, haven't they? What's next, an article about the merits of white vs yellow paint for the stripes designating spots in the parking lot?
I assume that this is the “we need about X thousands words of filler content” kind of article. I could be wrong of course but the opening paragraph didn’t really make me want to pay to see the rest :)
I have a very easy name and email address. I get wrong emails every week. Often have gotten emails with links to reset passwords for bank accounts, some medical record sites in some hospital systems, etc. Every week without fail.
I’m glad I have the email address. I hold myself to good moral values so I try to reach out to correct these errors if possible. It would suck for me if someone else had my email address and is not an ethical person.
Yes, this is sort of a fluffy feature piece. But I would hope that all the people complaining realize that doing nothing other than multi-month investigative journalism on Theranos isn't a profitable model. This is an easy story to crank out. Drowsy people on morning plane flights read it. Not everything is or can be serious investigative and analytic jornalism.
Heh. I have a first-name-only university alum email address that I grabbed pretty early on. I can't say I've received anything too inappropriate for a while but I did find myself trying to get myself off one or two board email lists and redirecting people trying to contact a professor for a while.
At one university I was at, I had an email address which was my four initials plus two digits. But I kept receiving emails intended for a lecturer with the same first name in the same department. I was getting emails about papers, conferences, and students asking for career advice.
He actually has a completely different email address to the one I had, but I guess people just looked us up in the directory (which, at the time, was publicly searchable) and didn't realise there could be more than one person with the same first name in the same department.
My main email only has 8 characters, guess 7 is the shortest a mere mortal can get these days. Often I don't earn awe for this, but confusion if it is really valid.
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I’m glad I have the email address. I hold myself to good moral values so I try to reach out to correct these errors if possible. It would suck for me if someone else had my email address and is not an ethical person.
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Their balance sheet is a bloated nightmare, and I get more insight from downvoted comments on HN
He actually has a completely different email address to the one I had, but I guess people just looked us up in the directory (which, at the time, was publicly searchable) and didn't realise there could be more than one person with the same first name in the same department.