When Gmail first became available in April 2004, I was one of the first people to sign up for an account. Little did I know that picking bobjones@gmail.com would mean that I’d be getting thousands of emails from all over the world, all accidentally addressed to the wrong Bob Jones. I even started a fun site to publish those wrongly addressed emails, but I let it expire
I shouldn’t have to tell you that this has pretty much rendered the email address useless, because it’s impossible to go through all the wrong emails and spam. On the upside, I do get loads of pre-paid porn site logins from people signing up for these services, and using my email address
Here’s a picture of my current inbox. I think I completely trashed the whole thing at the beginning of the year.
It looks like Google has developed a new feature especially for me. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/dont-forget-bob-and-got-wrong-bob.html Let’s see if this will really work, and cut down my inbox traffic. Thanks Google!
