Stupid Apple or Stupid Gmail
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I keep getting messages intended for somebody else in my e-mail. At first this was mostly just annoying, she gets spam from the WWF and some other organizations, which I just blocked. Then I started getting the receipts for her iTunes purchases (she likes Ice Road Truckers BTW). It turns out the e-mail address she used for iTunes is the same as my gmail account except for an extra period. I.E., if mine in wjousts (it's not), her's is w.jousts. Apparently gmail considers these to be the same address[^]. So I e-mailed Apple's support (after struggling to find a category on their support website for "you're sending me somebody else's stuff!") telling them that they need to figure out another way to contact her and tell her that her e-mail address is wrong. Instead they told me it's Google's problem and I should contact them instead. I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
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I keep getting messages intended for somebody else in my e-mail. At first this was mostly just annoying, she gets spam from the WWF and some other organizations, which I just blocked. Then I started getting the receipts for her iTunes purchases (she likes Ice Road Truckers BTW). It turns out the e-mail address she used for iTunes is the same as my gmail account except for an extra period. I.E., if mine in wjousts (it's not), her's is w.jousts. Apparently gmail considers these to be the same address[^]. So I e-mailed Apple's support (after struggling to find a category on their support website for "you're sending me somebody else's stuff!") telling them that they need to figure out another way to contact her and tell her that her e-mail address is wrong. Instead they told me it's Google's problem and I should contact them instead. I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
Don't blame the user, blame the software that can't parse legal strings.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't blame the user, blame the software that can't parse legal strings.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Whichever one got it wrong. BTW, does the "w" stand for "wobbly"? It would be more than moderately cool if it did.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I keep getting messages intended for somebody else in my e-mail. At first this was mostly just annoying, she gets spam from the WWF and some other organizations, which I just blocked. Then I started getting the receipts for her iTunes purchases (she likes Ice Road Truckers BTW). It turns out the e-mail address she used for iTunes is the same as my gmail account except for an extra period. I.E., if mine in wjousts (it's not), her's is w.jousts. Apparently gmail considers these to be the same address[^]. So I e-mailed Apple's support (after struggling to find a category on their support website for "you're sending me somebody else's stuff!") telling them that they need to figure out another way to contact her and tell her that her e-mail address is wrong. Instead they told me it's Google's problem and I should contact them instead. I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
I'm blaming Apple on this one. Shouldn't they have verified her e-mail address via a confirmation e-mail when she registered...? :doh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I keep getting messages intended for somebody else in my e-mail. At first this was mostly just annoying, she gets spam from the WWF and some other organizations, which I just blocked. Then I started getting the receipts for her iTunes purchases (she likes Ice Road Truckers BTW). It turns out the e-mail address she used for iTunes is the same as my gmail account except for an extra period. I.E., if mine in wjousts (it's not), her's is w.jousts. Apparently gmail considers these to be the same address[^]. So I e-mailed Apple's support (after struggling to find a category on their support website for "you're sending me somebody else's stuff!") telling them that they need to figure out another way to contact her and tell her that her e-mail address is wrong. Instead they told me it's Google's problem and I should contact them instead. I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
I had something similar happen with World of Warcraft, so I called Blizzard's support, and had them close the account.
Wjousts wrote:
I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
Probably not a bad idea, especially if you can find a way to leave a message, like changing their display name to "FIX YER ELEPHANTING EMAIL".
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I keep getting messages intended for somebody else in my e-mail. At first this was mostly just annoying, she gets spam from the WWF and some other organizations, which I just blocked. Then I started getting the receipts for her iTunes purchases (she likes Ice Road Truckers BTW). It turns out the e-mail address she used for iTunes is the same as my gmail account except for an extra period. I.E., if mine in wjousts (it's not), her's is w.jousts. Apparently gmail considers these to be the same address[^]. So I e-mailed Apple's support (after struggling to find a category on their support website for "you're sending me somebody else's stuff!") telling them that they need to figure out another way to contact her and tell her that her e-mail address is wrong. Instead they told me it's Google's problem and I should contact them instead. I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
Gmail has ignored periods since forever. It's a useful property - very useful to defeat silly "one account per email address" rules, adding extra periods is a lot easier than creating more email addresses. Anyway, this is Apple's fault. They shouldn't just use an email address without verifying it, and it hasn't been verified because you would have received her verification email.
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I had something similar happen with World of Warcraft, so I called Blizzard's support, and had them close the account.
Wjousts wrote:
I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
Probably not a bad idea, especially if you can find a way to leave a message, like changing their display name to "FIX YER ELEPHANTING EMAIL".
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I'm blaming Apple on this one. Shouldn't they have verified her e-mail address via a confirmation e-mail when she registered...? :doh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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The receipts from iTunes actually include her home address. I was tempted to send her a postcard, but since she's in Australia, who can be bothered!
Ok so here's what you do: 0. Find a pizza place within delivery range of her house with online ordering that allows you to include special instructions 1. Order a pizza in her name, have it delivered to her, and include instructions to the pizza guy to write in/on the box "Change your iTunes email" (spice it up as needed) 2. ??? 3. Profit [Edit: I can count just fine...shhhhh...]
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I keep getting messages intended for somebody else in my e-mail. At first this was mostly just annoying, she gets spam from the WWF and some other organizations, which I just blocked. Then I started getting the receipts for her iTunes purchases (she likes Ice Road Truckers BTW). It turns out the e-mail address she used for iTunes is the same as my gmail account except for an extra period. I.E., if mine in wjousts (it's not), her's is w.jousts. Apparently gmail considers these to be the same address[^]. So I e-mailed Apple's support (after struggling to find a category on their support website for "you're sending me somebody else's stuff!") telling them that they need to figure out another way to contact her and tell her that her e-mail address is wrong. Instead they told me it's Google's problem and I should contact them instead. I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
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Ok so here's what you do: 0. Find a pizza place within delivery range of her house with online ordering that allows you to include special instructions 1. Order a pizza in her name, have it delivered to her, and include instructions to the pizza guy to write in/on the box "Change your iTunes email" (spice it up as needed) 2. ??? 3. Profit [Edit: I can count just fine...shhhhh...]
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The receipts from iTunes actually include her home address. I was tempted to send her a postcard, but since she's in Australia, who can be bothered!
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The receipts from iTunes actually include her home address. I was tempted to send her a postcard, but since she's in Australia, who can be bothered!
Wjousts wrote:
The receipts from iTunes actually include her home address. I was tempted to send her a postcard, but since she's in Australia, who can be bothered!
Next time you get one, post about it here during Australian day time, advise the State, one of us will have to be fromthe same State. We may be able to contact her on your behalf. If she's from New South Wales you can pass it on to me and I will happily sort her out.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I keep getting messages intended for somebody else in my e-mail. At first this was mostly just annoying, she gets spam from the WWF and some other organizations, which I just blocked. Then I started getting the receipts for her iTunes purchases (she likes Ice Road Truckers BTW). It turns out the e-mail address she used for iTunes is the same as my gmail account except for an extra period. I.E., if mine in wjousts (it's not), her's is w.jousts. Apparently gmail considers these to be the same address[^]. So I e-mailed Apple's support (after struggling to find a category on their support website for "you're sending me somebody else's stuff!") telling them that they need to figure out another way to contact her and tell her that her e-mail address is wrong. Instead they told me it's Google's problem and I should contact them instead. I'm half tempted to just go onto iTunes and change her password. Maybe then she'll figure out that she's an idiot.
