This is a collection of somewhat special emails I have received over the years. Shown here for social science research purposes.

I have tried to clean off all names, email addresses and some company names from the emails. Except the redaction of personal identifiable information, the contents of the emails are shown exactly as I received them.

The emails tend to be in one of these categories.

• Accusing me of wrongdoings
• Thinking I'm responsible for or know anything about a product (that probably uses curl)
• Random weirdness

To the best of my knowledge, none of these emails were sent ironically or as jokes.

This is a subset of the total feed. A curated "best of".

start here, here or here.

Or go to the index of all emails

My name appears in many products..

I used to. Over time I learned that is very hard to bridge the knowledge gap, plus the fact that many users will just consider whatever I say as excuses for not helping them the way they want.

It simply takes too much time and energy. I almost never respond to these emails anymore.