| Author | Message | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3074 Registered: 12-2010 |
Although - or should I say because? - I have no idea who they are, I sent them an e-mail today. What's going on? "they" refers to only one person, "he/she". | ||
| Deholmes (Deholmes)
New member Username: Deholmes Post Number: 90 Registered: 11-2012 |
was this in response to an e-mail you received? Was it a scam? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1951 Registered: 4-2007 |
Was the email hoping to establish who they are? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3075 Registered: 12-2010 |
was this in response to an e-mail you received? no Was it a scam? no Was the email hoping to establish who they are? yes | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4840 Registered: 9-2009 |
Relevant how or where you found the email address? Was it presented in an intentionally mysterious way? Such as written on a dollar bill you received? Or was it written on something someone seemed to have lost? Did you contact them in order to let them know you'd found something? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3080 Registered: 12-2010 |
Relevant how or where you found the email address? yope. Slight FA, investigate Was it presented in an intentionally mysterious way? noish Such as written on a dollar bill you received? no Or was it written on something someone seemed to have lost? no Did you contact them in order to let them know you'd found something? no | ||
| Deholmes (Deholmes)
New member Username: Deholmes Post Number: 98 Registered: 11-2012 |
Were they advertising a product, service, vote for me? promoting something? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3086 Registered: 12-2010 |
Were they advertising a product, service, vote for me? promoting something? no to all - I had not received an e-mail from them | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1956 Registered: 4-2007 |
Did they contact you in any way before you sent the email? Did you see their email address written somewhere? Did you hear of it from someone? Did you write the email without having come across the email address previously? Did the email say, in effect, "who are you"? Did the email hope to achieve more than just finding out who they are? Had they done something to annoy you? Anger you? Arouse your curiosity? Had you come across them in some way before sending the email? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3087 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did they contact you in any way before you sent the email? no Did you see their email address written somewhere? no Did you hear of it from someone? no Did you write the email without having come across the email address previously? yes, slight ish Did the email say, in effect, "who are you"? yes Did the email hope to achieve more than just finding out who they are? no Had they done something to annoy you? yope Anger you? no Arouse your curiosity? yes Had you come across them in some way before sending the email? no | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1957 Registered: 4-2007 |
Is Christmas relevant? Did you have some way of knowing that the email address was a real one? Did they have the same name as you? Did you try to sign up for that email address and were told it was already taken? Did you want to find out who had registered an interesting email address? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3088 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is Christmas relevant? no Did you have some way of knowing that the email address was a real one? yes Did they have the same name as you? yope, investigate Did you try to sign up for that email address and were told it was already taken? no Did you want to find out who had registered an interesting email address? no | ||
| Deholmes (Deholmes)
New member Username: Deholmes Post Number: 100 Registered: 11-2012 |
Did something in the e-mail address make you think of a relative or a friend? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3089 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did something in the e-mail address make you think of a relative or a friend? no | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 547 Registered: 2-2008 |
That's exactly what I was thinking, Enjay, because I've done it before... Were you writing to one person? An organization? A company? A machine? Did you know? Did you expect a certain response? Hope for a certain response? Were you seeing if you would get any response at all? Your email asked "who are you?"--might they respond with a name? A mission statement? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3091 Registered: 12-2010 |
That's exactly what I was thinking, Enjay, because I've done it before... Were you writing to one person? this An organization? A company? A machine? Did you know? {yes} Did you expect a certain response? Just an answer to the question who they are Hope for a certain response? {no} Were you seeing if you would get any response at all? no Your email asked "who are you?"--might they respond with a name? yes A mission statement? no Hi Gourami, nice to see you back! | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3632 Registered: 2-2011 |
did you click on "contact us" on their website? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3093 Registered: 12-2010 |
did you click on "contact us" on their website? {no} | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4860 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did someone email you by mistake? Or send you their email address by some other means, by mistake? My girlfriend gets this all the time, she has a very common name and her email is in the form of firstname.lastname on a popular webmail service. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3094 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did someone email you by mistake? no Or send you their email address by some other means, by mistake? no My girlfriend gets this all the time, she has a very common name and her email is in the form of firstname.lastname on a popular webmail service. The same thing happens to my mum. She frequently gets e-mail addressed to a political science professor whom she shares her name with - everything from personal greetings to symposium invitations... | ||
| Rogerchang (Rogerchang)
New member Username: Rogerchang Post Number: 113 Registered: 9-2012 |
You found a user on Facebook with exactly the same name you have and even you, or you were afraid, someone might be confused with the identity of you and him/her? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3096 Registered: 12-2010 |
You found a user on Facebook with exactly the same name you have and even you, or you were afraid, someone might be confused with the identity of you and him/her? no HINT: Find out what kind of e-mail address this was. | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1962 Registered: 4-2007 |
Was it in the form of [name]@[domain].[whatever]? Was the first part a real name? Was the domain an email provider, like gmail or hotmail? Was it a business address? A academic one? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3097 Registered: 12-2010 |
Was it in the form of [name]@[domain].[whatever]? yope Was the first part a real name? yope Was the domain an email provider, like gmail or hotmail? Was it a business address? no to these A academic one? yes! | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1965 Registered: 4-2007 |
Was it a university address? If so, your university? Did you want to find out who they were only out of curiosity? To solve some problem for yourself? Did you think it possible that you had met the person whose email address it was? That you knew of them? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3098 Registered: 12-2010 |
Was it a university address? If so, your university? yes to both Did you want to find out who they were only out of curiosity? yesish, but why was I curious? To solve some problem for yourself? noish Did you think it possible that you had met the person whose email address it was? That you knew of them? no to all | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1966 Registered: 4-2007 |
The way my university email service works is that when you start entering an email address, it suggests email addresses, so you can email anyone in the university without having previously known their address. Is something like this relevant? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3099 Registered: 12-2010 |
The way my university email service works is that when you start entering an email address, it suggests email addresses, so you can email anyone in the university without having previously known their address. That's pretty cool, but I guess it wouldn't be possible here in Germany because we have very strict data/privacy protection rules Is something like this relevant? so, no | ||
| Vene (Vene)
New member Username: Vene Post Number: 132 Registered: 9-2008 |
Are they a student? Staff? Professor? TA? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3108 Registered: 12-2010 |
Are they a student? this Staff? Professor? TA? | ||
| Rogerchang (Rogerchang)
New member Username: Rogerchang Post Number: 115 Registered: 9-2012 |
Students sent an email to you and styled you as Professor or something like that and then asked you lots of academic questions or asked if you would like to have a new seminar, or something like that while you were not a professor at all or not professional in what they were asking? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3114 Registered: 12-2010 |
Students sent an email to you and styled you as Professor or something like that and then asked you lots of academic questions or asked if you would like to have a new seminar, or something like that while you were not a professor at all or not professional in what they were asking? no, OTWT Focus on the name issue. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18065 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is your name similar to that of another student? Staff member? Professor? Ditto for the other person? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3117 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is your name similar to that of another student? probably - to the one I sent the e-mail to Staff member? Professor? no or irrel to these Ditto for the other person? yes, they probably have a name similar to mine | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3146 Registered: 12-2010 |
RECAP I sent an e-mail to a student at my university in order to find out who they are. My name is probably similar to theirs, which aroused my curiosity. HINT: Find out how the e-mail addresses at my university are structured. It's not [firstname].[lastname]@[university], but... | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4965 Registered: 9-2009 |
does it contain firstname? Lastname? Only initials? A nickname? Something else? Does it have the university name in it? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2015 Registered: 4-2007 |
Your name is probably similar to theirs...are you basing this guess on their email address? By comparing their email address to yours? Based on something more? My university emails involve your 'username', which is a string of letters and numbers generated based on your name, subject studied and year of arrival. Anything like this relevant? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3224 Registered: 12-2010 |
does it contain firstname? parts of it Lastname? parts of it Only initials? more than that A nickname? no Something else? yes, but irrel Does it have the university name in it? only in the part after the @ Your name is probably similar to theirs...are you basing this guess on their email address? yes By comparing their email address to yours? yes Based on something more? there's a bit more than comparing e-mail addresses. Why would I do that in the first place? My university emails involve your 'username', which is a string of letters and numbers generated based on your name, subject studied and year of arrival. Anything like this relevant? somewhat. Our first has an s for student, then the department number and then parts of your name, but only the name parts are relevant to the puzzle | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2016 Registered: 4-2007 |
Did you come across their address anywhere? Were you able to predict that it would exist? Does your address have a 2 in it so you know there must be an address identical except with a 1? Anything like this? Are the parts of the name which appear in the address identical to your name? To part of your name? If so, the part which appears in your address? If not identical, are they similar? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3225 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did you come across their address anywhere? no Were you able to predict that it would exist? yes! How so? Does your address have a 2 in it so you know there must be an address identical except with a 1? no, but definitely OTRT Anything like this? see previous answers Are the parts of the name which appear in the address identical to your name? To part of your name? this If so, the part which appears in your address? no, but explore If not identical, are they similar? very! | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2017 Registered: 4-2007 |
Is it something like: normally the addresses use the first three letters of your name, but yours uses the last three letters, so you predict there must be someone with the same first three letters as you who took your email address first? Could you predict this email address solely based on yours? Is there anything different about yours compared to the standard way of formatting? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3226 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is it something like: normally the addresses use the first three letters of your name, but yours uses the last three letters, so you predict there must be someone with the same first three letters as you who took your email address first? YES! Could you predict this email address solely based on yours? yes Is there anything different about yours compared to the standard way of formatting? yes - This is enough for me to declare the ********SPOILER******** Our university e-mail addresses usually use the first two letters of one's first name and the first four letters of one's last name. Mine, however, uses the first and the last letter of my first name, so I figured that there must be someone whose name is very similar to mine. Being the curious person that I am, I wrote them an e-mail in order know who exactly they are, but they never replied... Nice second solve in a row, Enjay! | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2018 Registered: 4-2007 |
Thanks! Good puzzle! |
