[stennie]

When I joined Yahoo! Australia & NZ in 1997 I had the OG account <firstname>@yahoo.com.au. We later launched Yahoo! Australia & NZ Mail and moved the company accounts to a yahoo-inc subdomain, so the natural thing to do was redirect our former yahoo.com.au email addresses to the equivalent corp inbox. The OG address was on my business cards, and it was nice having some continuity. Briefly.

I never realised how many friends I had on the internet, and at first I gently replied to a few that I wasn't the `<firstname>` they were looking for. This was a more utopian era where email spam was in a more infant stage, and most of these friends were real people trying to connect rather than bots and scammers. However, there were a lot of new users joining Y!Mail and apparently quite a few were looking for me.

Some of my new friends were pretty insistent (and oversharing), so it didn't take long for me to abandon the OG forwarding address and associated nostalgia. So many friends, so little time for real conversation.