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<title>Wrong email | Adam Cooper</title>
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<h3 id="sorry-wrong-email">Sorry, wrong email</h3>
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<p>I receive misdirected emails with a bizarrely high frequency. About
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once a week, I receive an email at my old GMail address, addressed to
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someone unknown to me hundreds or even thousands of miles away.</p>
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<p>There’s not much mystery to it. I was an early adopter of GMail, and
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grabbed a relatively common <i>first-initial–middle-initial–surname</i> username.
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Once GMail went out of beta, a bunch of people got addresses similar to
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mine. And from time to time they type their email address into a form and
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forget to add the digits or whatever is tacked on after the surname in
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their address, and next thing you know I’m getting a promo email from a
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yoga studio in Hamilton, Ontario. Or I’m getting invited to a golfing
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weekend in Florida or whatever.</p>
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<p>They come from all over. Not just the unsurprising places in
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Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, or USA. I get emails from
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Chile and Mexico too. I can speak Spanish, so that’s helpful in those
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instances.</p>
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<p>I try to write a note to everyone, but honestly it’s been years of
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this, so I started semiautomating the process to make it interesting.
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If you’re technically savvy, you can check out the code <a
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href="https://git.theadamcooper.com/adam/dotfiles/src/branch/master/arch/bin/autoreply/autoreply.sh">here</a>,
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although it’s not very exciting. It just kind of gets the job done.</p>
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