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by paulmd
3391 days ago
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As someone with an unusual name (used for my public-facing email address) and who uses a fairly unusual email for personal stuff... that's pretty different from my experiences. I've never ended up with someone else's mail at all. That's a solid argument for business cards with vCard QR codes as I see it. Or a pack of stickers with QR codes that you could slap on whatever documents you needed. It's too bad QR code adoption is so horrible. I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else, I assume that any QR code is probably just some marketing thing. But vCards seem like one of the very legit use-cases. Now that I am imagining using stickers and never filling out my contact info on a form again, I realize that's definitely a world I want to live in. |
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I think it's more likely if you use an initial in your email address. I have a fairly unusual last name, but I used my first initial to create my gmail address, so I regularly get stuff meant for a couple of other people.
Business cards or sheets of stickers are not going to solve this problem. The former is not universal, and you're not going to get enough adoption for the latter (do you really want to carry them around in case you need to put your email on a form?).
The only solution that might actually work is to put some kind of financial penalty on certain classes of email sender to incentivize reasonable levels of validation.