Will The Real Cole Cooper Please Stand up - 2018 Version

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 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 or email is exclusive.
What I do mind is the silly email problems having a common name like this gives me on Gmail. When people take down the email address for some folks they get it wrong.  Since I was the first Cole Cooper on Gmail - the three addresses you see at the top of the page come into my mailbox.  So I get mail not intended for me. 

 Like your Mill Woods Assembly email - with an attached donation receipt.  Which makes it even more important to get the address right -   as an example - I got the sign in Instructions for an Allstate account for a Cole Cooper in the US - all the stuff I needed to hack into his account.  So I phoned the insurance company and told them to send the material to the right guy.  What they had done is put the name without checking to see if they had the right email address and found there was an 88 missing from the address.  Now if I was a less than an honest person, that would be a good way to me to steal an identity.  
As it is - please send the receipt to the right Cole Cooper.  Thanks for your time. 
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