Guy Who Casually Registered Obama Gmail In 2004 Now Inundated

Back in 2004, recent college graduate Guru Raj signed up for the then fledgling Gmail service and, on a whim, chose the name of then fledgling Illinois senator Barack Obama as his e-mail address. He typed in barackobama@gmail.com and registered it as a bit of a joke, and has used it as his personal e-mail. But ever since then, as Gmail has grown in popularity, so too has the popularity of that once unknown senator, an entertaining tale told by 'The New Yorker.'

Raj received a growing number of interesting messages over the years as Obama grew in recognition and began his run to the White House. The messages were, at first, an entertaining distraction, but more recently, they have begun to upstage all of his personal e-mail. So, he's redirecting it all to spam and opening a new account -- this time using a variation on his own name. For some of the funnier e-mails he's received, be sure to check out the piece.[Source: The New Yorker]

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