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From: Mike & Jill Johnson shadowrn@******.net
Subject: please remove me
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 02:50:03 -0600
At 01:07 PM 10/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Not sure what would cause it based on your user name... but when I was on
>AT&T, my email was augustus@*********.net and I got a tonne of email for an
>augustus@********.ca
>
>I asked AT&T to look into it... they only came up with the answer "we're
>sorry about that, we'll have it fixed... its probably because we run the
>www.redcross.ca and pop.redcross.ca servers and there is something wrong
>with the email"
>
>either way, after about 6 months they never got it fixed and I left AT&T
>anyhow... so whatever happened, I doubt its fixed yet.
>
>Augustus


Its even more fun when you work for a large company that uses internal
email like a religion. And your name is super common. I get mail for
Mary, Markus, and anyone else with a first name starting in M and ending in
Johnson. Very annoying but can prove interesting to find out whats going
on in other departments.

Mike

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