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Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man

Posted by Soulskill on from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TechCrunch is reporting on an interesting Gmail bug. Apparently, if you run a Google search for Gmail while logged in and click one of the top (and correct) results, it brings up a Compose window with an email address already filled in: the Hotmail account of a Fresno, CA man. He says he's been receiving hundreds every hour, most of which are blank, since yesterday. The article says the bug is related to the Gmail outage from earlier this afternoon."

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  1. How do you know you're having a shitty day? by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you are being DDoSed by motherfucking Google .

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
    1. Re:How do you know you're having a shitty day? by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think Google should send someone over and do that for him.

      As well as other general levels of groveling.

      This guy has a real case against Google in the court of public opinion. He doesn't have to go legal. The simple PR value here is enough for Google to make a giant public act of contrition and gift the guy with something large, to make up for the troubles they caused him.

      Hey... here's an idea: send over a high level Google engineer as this guy's personal lowly tech support guy for a month.

      Heck, that sounds like it could be a sitcom, a Youtube web series.

      Google: you can turn lemons into lemonade here, make it happen.

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      intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  2. Google search for gmail by FuzzNugget · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I think we've located the source of the problem