The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Monday, October 09, 2023

The Temptation

I'm still receiving emails for some other Sean Conner. This is about the fourth or fifth email I've received from XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­X, and I've already contacted them twice about the emails. They said they would remove my email. And yet:

From
XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­X <donotreply@XXXXX­XXXX>
To
seanconner@gmail.com
Subject
Upcoming Appointment Reminder 10/11/2023 8:30am
Date
Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:31:05 +0000

Hi XXXXX­XXXX,

Your upcoming appointment with Dr XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­X at XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­X at XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXX Lake City, FL 32024 is on Wednesday, 10/11/2023 at 8:30am.

Please confirm your appointment so we can update our records.

Please take a minute to fill out or confirm your information through the online intake form:

https://XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXX

If you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment, please call us directly.

Thank you,

XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXX
XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­X
XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXX

It's to my email address, but not my name. And of course the reply goes to a blackhole email account.

At this point, I'm seriously considering if I should just call and cancel XXXXX­XXXX's appointment and just savor the confusion and anger that will happen at 8:30am on Wednesday, with the hope that someone will figure out the email address is wrong. While the confusion and anger would happen, I'm beginning to seriously doubt they would track it down to the email address. Even Bunny, BUNNY! agrees that I should just call and cancel the appointment, especially after I've called them twice about this. I mean, I thought I was being a BOFH for thinking of doing this, but I would have never thought of Bunny as a BOFH.

Cool!

So why don't I just ignore this? Why go to the bother of notifying parties they have a wrong email address? Because I feel that notifying is the proper thing to do—these people are leaking private information to strangers, and apparently, they either don't know or care about it. If they don't care about, well, then it's on them, but if they don't know I'm sure that being notified would be helpful to them. That's why I do it.

But this … after contacting them twice? Yeah, I'm cancelling that appointment. And maybe as I keep cancelling them, they'll get a clue-by-four and fix the issue.

Or have me arrested.

I'm giving it 50/50 odds …

Update on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023

I ended up not cancelling the appointment.

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