A humorous story on similar domain names...
I own "yourmailinglist.com" and was recently afforded front-row seats to a
family feud of mind-boggling proportions. It seems someone with a large
extended family had sent out a personal newsletter updating all his
relatives on his current state of affairs, the kids are fine, Mary's in
College, Joe has a new job, etc. etc. Well, one of the recipients took
great offence to receiving such an impersonal form of communications. He
blasted the entire list with a scathing sarcastic attack on the original
sender who he accused of "spamming" his relatives instead of sending each
one a personal update.
In order to make himself "anonymous" he changed his reply-to address to
"someone@yourmailinglist.com". Practically everyone on the list came back
with their own scathing responses about how they were quite happy to receive
the newsletter about Mike and his kids, and shouldn't he be ashamed of
himself for his insensitivity, etc. Of course, all these replies ended up
in my mailbox...
I got my revenge, though. I simply "educated" all of those irate relatives
in how to read an e-mail header, and soon they were blasting "Mr. Anonymous"
at his proper address. The risk? If you're crazy enough to insult your
whole extended family, be smart enough to know how to really cover your
tracks... [James.Ryan@telemedianetworks.com via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 24]
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