[mrcu5]

I'm confused. Do people just assume they can think of an email address and Google somehow knows and assigns it to them automatically?

Like they're signing up for something and put in "[e-mail]" and think "My name is Santosh and I was born in '83. Google obviously knows this and will send me this email!" ????????

[emberfiend]

If you ever figure out why people do this or what their thinking is, let me know, but yeah this actually happens. I have a common name but a long and uncommon surname, and I have [e-mail].

This GP from New Zealand signs up for EVERYTHING under my gmail account. A handful of it spam, but mostly important stuff - notifications for financial transactions make up most of the mails I receive.

I have called his offices repeatedly to try to discuss it with him, and even have a reasonable rapport with his secretary, but he never wants to take my calls.

I really cannot figure out why he does it.

[NiggaBytes]

Is he in Auckland? If it's my GP I'll take it up with him for ya :P

[pbhjpbhj]

I can't see that being the case (except exceedingly rarely) but perhaps if they had "[e-mail]" on an MS device and then got a device with Google mail they think their address is now "[e-mail]"? Or they're just nuts ...

[rhino369]

Could be something like this:

Had [e-mail], but migrated to gmail and had to use something else. Then they misremember and hand out [e-mail].