{"id":29102,"date":"2026-03-25T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=29102"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:05:41","slug":"one-hundred-weirdo-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/one-hundred-weirdo-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"One hundred weirdo emails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. My email address is spelled out in the curl license<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The curl license appears in many products<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Some people have problems with their products and need someone to email<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. A few of these discover my email in their product<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Occasionally, the person in need of help emails me about their product.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. I collect some of those and make them public<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I hope I don’t have to spell it out but I will do it anyway: in these cases I don’t know anything about their products and I cannot help them. Quite often I first need to search around only to figure out what the product is or does, that the person asks me about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Over the years I have collected such emails that end up in my inbox. Out of those that I have received, I have cherry-picked my favorites: the best, the weirdest, the most offensive and the most confused ones and I put them up online<\/a>. A few of then also triggered separate blog posts of their own in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They help us remember that the world is complicated and hard to understand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Today, my online collection reached the magical amount: 100 emails. The first one in the stash was received in 2009 and the latest arrived just the other day. I expect I’ll keep adding occasional new ones going forward as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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