Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
I just realized that all the email sent to incorrect addresses @electrolicious.com have been going into a mystery inbox for the last six months. O’ Horrors! I just opened the inbox, and found misdirected emails for both T. (who has a confusing @electrolicious.com addy) and Andreas (who has an @electrolicious.ORG email address that people have repeated screwed up as .com), as well as a whole bunch of spam and emails for me.
I hate people thinking that I’ve ignored their messages. I mean, not that I respond to EVERY SINGLE email I receive, but still. Geek guilt has taken over. I have dealt with it by making sure that misdirected emails are bounced instead of collecting quietly in a hidden folder somewhere.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Adelina
December 4th, 2003 at 4:09 am
The same thing happened to me! I found thousands of emails sent to addresses I thought no longer existed in some crazy catchall email! Thank goodness I realized it and took care of the problem.