Weird issue with email
by binkyd from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4VS9A)
Not sure where to post this...
Has any one else noticed that sometimes when you take what you think is a unique username to a new email account, you find that it's already taken?
This has never happened to me the FIRST time I've used a new email username, but if I then try to use that name somewhere else later, it's now already taken.
Here's what I mean - I'd like to use the same email as a login everywhere, but I want to use a non-identifying username. So I come up with a username, go to somewhere and create an account. All fine and dandy.
Within a day or 2, that new username will show up "taken" nearly everywhere.
And having a consistent username goes out the window.
I've tried this now with 2 really wonky-ass names, and by the 3rd or 4th site, the name is gone.
Is this about some kind of whacko "mail bot" ??
Has any one else noticed that sometimes when you take what you think is a unique username to a new email account, you find that it's already taken?
This has never happened to me the FIRST time I've used a new email username, but if I then try to use that name somewhere else later, it's now already taken.
Here's what I mean - I'd like to use the same email as a login everywhere, but I want to use a non-identifying username. So I come up with a username, go to somewhere and create an account. All fine and dandy.
Within a day or 2, that new username will show up "taken" nearly everywhere.
And having a consistent username goes out the window.
I've tried this now with 2 really wonky-ass names, and by the 3rd or 4th site, the name is gone.
Is this about some kind of whacko "mail bot" ??