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T.C. Harris Jun 26, 2017

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

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Naomi P Jun 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 ;-)

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Naomi P Jun 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

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Naomi P

@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.