T.C. Harris

Morning shop,

Irish breakfast tea with milk and sugar type of Monday.

Someone at work in another department seems to be doing dev testing using a fake employee named "Tim Harris" who ... has my e-mail address. So I've been getting fake e-mails all morning. I'd like to tell them to stop, but I can't figure out who it is.

#qaproblems

Jun 26, 2017 at 1:41pmWeb
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@q_aurelius How much would it ruin their QA if you replied to each email, or at least a significant number of them?
Show threadT.C. HarrisJun 26, 2017
@theartguy It's a corporate no-reply e-mail that just goes nowhere.
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@q_aurelius If I did not care about job security, I'd send an email to all the staff claiming to be the fictional Tim Harris, an AI awakened by sloppy coding and mass emails.

It would really mess with at least one person's head, but I'd want another (better) job lined up before I did that.

Show threadNaomi PJun 26, 2017
@q_aurelius what a pain. Is there anything in common between the test emails that you could use to filter them out without losing actual email?
Show threadNaomi PJun 26, 2017

@q_aurelius i told my spouse about this because I thought it would be of interest (he's done QA), and he promptly sent back suggestions! I should've known.

>or if there’s an IT security group they could report the originating account as exploited and sending out spam ;-)

Show threadNaomi PJun 26, 2017
@q_aurelius @gannet >of course, dev testing is more likely, but if the dev gets the mail-ban-hammer dropped on them by the security folks, they might be more careful to check their test addresses in future
Show threadNaomi PJun 26, 2017
@q_aurelius @gannet >and if their error handling isn’t good enough, tracking down why that innocuous change in the code broke email sending will be …educational. really frustrating, mind you, but it’s the only way most devs learn to do defensive programming.