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I have a domain name IMPeople.com and I keep getting mails that people are addressing incorrectly. People are sending the mail to impeople instead of jmpeople. In the past I would forward the mail to both parties letting them know that they had mistyped the address, after having done this about 100 times I am pretty bored having to do it over and over. So I have now taken to deleting the emails, I feel bad as jmpeople is a recruitment company and often the emails are people sending their CVs looking for a job. Most of the jobs are high profile positions, so if the person can't get the email address right, then really what right do they have to be in a high position?

Seriously though what would you do?

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Gravatar Image1 - You should read every CV. Phone everyone up and explain to them where they went wrong and offer them help them. You should then contact the company JMPeople.com and fax all the CV's to the company and explain to them what went wrong. This way you will come back in your next re-incarnation as a higher life form. Yes you might come back as a developer working for Microsoft.
If you continue to delete these files and not help these poor people doing all they can to find a job you will come back as a WebSphere Developer.

Be careful in your choice. Be very careful.

Gravatar Image2 - If it is always the same recipient address at your side, you could create a user in your directory who receives the mails. But instead of reading them you fill in a forward address in the person record pointing to jmpeople. This should work, i guess...

Gravatar Image3 - Sadly the email addresses change, and go to different jmpeople employees. Also this email is actually all just forwarded by GoDaddy, so I don't have a server to setup rules etc.

Gravatar Image4 - Duh!! You should offer to seel the domain to jmpeople!!

Gravatar Image5 - I don't think there's anything immoral about ignoring/deleting emails that were not intended for you. While it is nice of you, no one should *expect* it. Chances are, the applicant will call jmpeople and say 'did you get my CV', they'll say no, and they'll either figure out what went wrong or find another way to send it.

I agree that if someone is going to apply for a job via email, they should at least be competent enough to get the email address right. I don't think that this applies to only high profile positions. No company should want to hire someone that might send information about their company to a wrong email address.

The only other advice that occurs to me is that JMpeople might need to check the print on their advertisements in print and on the web. Perhaps the choice of upper/lower case, or the font choice, is causing people to make this mistake. The letters j and i or J and I can look very similar in some fonts. If there's someone at that company that you've discussed this with before, you might want to suggest that. And maybe let them know you won't be forwarding the emails anymore.

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