Re: Weird problem

Mike, Nancy, Judy;
I forget the names of the sites, but I distinctly remember typing in 
certain sites *without* the leading *www* and coming across a commercial, 
big-bucks site (one of them owned by the notorious M$). When I typed in the 
exact same combination of letters *with* the leading *www*, up popped the 
site I was looking for! Happened twice, recently, and I pay attention to 
little details like exact lettering. Don't lose your paranoia yet, Mike!
BenO

At 03:11 PM 4/17/2000 -0500, you wrote:

>Now isn't that typical!  I had it firmly fixed in my mind that there's a 
>conspiracy here, and I was expecting lawyers and millions of bucks to be 
>changing hands, and what happens?   Nancy goes and spoils it all with a 
>perfectly reasonable explanation that will take 5 minutes to fix.
>
>Where's the spectator sport in that Nancy?
>
>Cheers,
>Mike Kear
>AFP Web Development
>Windsor, NSW, Australia .
>http://www.afp.zip.com.au
>
>
>>
>>Judith, I suspect they have mistyped their email address in their site, so
>>it is going to you.  Which means your getting their mail, and they are
>>probably not.
>>Sending them email would be fruitless, if it comes back to you, so I suggest
>>a phone call to tell them that their web person has made a huge error and
>>their "important" email is coming to you.  That will get them to fix it.  I
>>am sure they won't like the fact that their mail is coming to you anymore
>>than you like getting it.
>>
>>Nancy
>>
>> > Hi everyone,
>> > Yesterday and today I received 2 mails for someone else's web site. I
>>didn't
>> > think anything of it yesterday but today on receiving another I went to
>>the
>> > site and looked. Anyway they have a similar name as mine and are using the
>> > same e-mail address as myself. I have written them today to ask them to
>> > change it but....they are a large company and what rights do I have if
>>they
>> > refuse? I registered my domain in 1997 and have been using this e-mail
>> > address ever since. I sent them an e-mail at their other address posted
>>and
>> > it came back to me.
>> > I have been on this list for a bit but felt that I should not use my
>>e-mail
>> > address sales(at)thetackbox.com in case they are getting my mail so I
>> > resubscribed with this address. Any suggestions?
>> > Judy
>> >
>> >
>
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