Canadian student emails 246 Nicoles hoping to find lost connection

Boy meets girl, girl gives boy wrong number: some people might take it as a hint, but one Canadian student decided it was a challenge.

He emailed 246 women at the University of Calgary with the first name "Nicole" in search of the one he had met the night prior -- causing many of the women on the mass email chain to strike up a friendship.

"We have this Nicole network now," said communications student Nicole Manaog.

The girl gang formed after Carlos Zetina met one Nicole on Thursday when the pair apparently hit it off -- but Zetina only managed to snag her first name and a wrong number.

So he sent out an email blast: "Met you last night and you gave me the wrong number," he wrote in the subject line.

But as a Dutch exchange student, Toetenel does not have an email address affiliated with the university in Canada's Alberta province.

The other women, however, began a long thread and soon created a Facebook page they dubbed "Nicole From Last Night" to have a mass conversation sans Zetina.

"We created a Facebook page and we've been chatting that way," said theater student Nicole Rathberger. "It's kind of neat that we've been using the technology to get to know each other."