Gmail might partially be to blame for me receiving emails from other Sean Conners

I was reading the Lobsters thread about the article “A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets” when I left a comment about my own struggles with receiving emails for other Sean Conners. That started a thread that swamped the comment section about other people who had similar stories, so it's nice to know that I'm not alone. Also, here's one of my favorite comments in that thread (for reasons that should be apparent): I was about to say, "I know a guy with a whole blog series about that." But then I looked, and you were him. Lobsters comment Heh. But the thread as a whole left me with the idea that there's still a lot of people out there that barely understand email and aren't even sure what their own email even is. Sad. I did get an email about my comment from Keong Lim, claiming it was mostly Google's fault for the confusion and linked to this fairly damning answer at Stack Exchange: It is a lesson in human nature that so many experts simply recite…