Bell in the West This is a trial site I'm evaluating for possible use. Any and all comments from the Bell folks are welcomed. It will be around until mid May and comments can be sent to me at cole.cooper@bell.ca
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The will the Real Cole Cooper please stand up?

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A Googley e-mail issue colecoop@gmail.com - cole.cooper@ gmail.com and colecooper@gmail.com
Once upon a time - October 6, 2004 to be exact - I was one of the first users of Google email beta after getting an invite for the Beta.  At the time - I had a Hotmail address for Obandrinker@homtail.com, plus a Shaw @ home address.  So after a few minutes in the old system, 
I ended up with my name in gmail as cole.cooper@gmail.com.  Using that account, I set up this blog and my Google+ services, and my Google Plus page.
And there the fun begins.  Back in 2004 there were not many Cole Coopers on the internet. It was a fairly uncommon name. There are a lot more now.  There is a football player Cole Cooper on Twitter at @coopball, There is even a Marvel Cole Cooper character at the Daily Bugle. Facebook pages, and a colecooper.com Which is fine - I don't mind, they seem to have the right guy on their email addresses and I'm not vain enough to think my name is exclusive. 
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Will The Real Cole Cooper Please Stand up - 2018 Version

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Well, I just looked at the blog log.  This is post number 1,003.  A Thousand postings.  And here is the old issue coming up again.  This time from a church of all things.

So here's the note I sent to the pastor of the church who emailed me.





Dear Pastor XXXX;
Please, could you contact the Cole Cooper who is your in the parish?  He has given you the address of cole.cooper@gmail.com for his email address - which is my address, the story of it is below:

A Googley e-mail issue
Sending to colecoop@gmail.com - cole.cooper@ gmail.com and colecooper@gmail.com will all come to my address.

Once upon a time - October 6, 2004, to be exact - I was one of the first users of Google email beta after getting an invite for the Beta.  At the time - I had a Hotmail address for Obandrinker@hotmail.com, plus a Shaw @ home address.  So after a few minutes in the old system, I ended up with my name in Gmail ascole.cooper@gmail.com.  Using that account, I set up this blog and my Google+ services, and my Google…
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