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                            The Shadow Sean Conners
                                        
I've had a Gmail [1] account for nearly a decade now, although I never use
it. I think I got one back in the day to see for myself the hype around this
new email service from Google [2]. I obtained the account early enough to
snag the address sean.conner@gmail.com (but don't send anything there—it
might be months before I get to it).

But the weird thing is that I constantly get email meant for other Sean
Conners. I checked today and …

* I have a girlfriend (or wife) named Ashley,
* I just joined to run the SCS Christmas 5K [3] in New Jersey,
* I just had my AT&T payment processed with a XXXX card ending in XXXX,
* my secure login to the Walmart MoneyCard mobile app has just been created,
  with a user ID of XXXXXXXXXX.

And all this just in the past week!

What I find amazing and uncomprehensible is … do these other Sean Conners not
know their own email address? Do they just assume sean.conner@gmail.com will
somehow, magically, get to them? Do they not care? Do other people sending
the email just assume that sean.conner@gmail.com will get to the Sean Conner
they know?

What's going on?

I do respond to some of these (the ones that don't appear to be spam at
least), informing the sender that they have the wrong Sean Conner, but rarely
do I ever get a message back.

It's bizarre.

[1] https://gmail.com/
[2] https://www.google.com/
[3] https://raceroster.com/events/2017/13903/scs-christmas-5k

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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