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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. Bigness destroys companies by hessian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google was great when it was small and had shared vision.

    Now we're seeing the company both have many more screwups, and be more manipulative, basically by trying to force us all to use GoogleBook (or G+ as they call it).

    I don't think they're bad people. I think human organizations, when they get too large, become unstable because shared vision is lost and people start treating it as "just a job."

    Obviously, no amount of free soft drinks and stock options can remedy that.

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