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Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by williamscales »

boring_twenties wrote: post #149
liquidgecka wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Been there. I posted about this before but I own a 5 character common first and last name @gmail.com address. I get misdirected emails _constantly_. Usually I am polite about it and let people know, but sometimes I make a game of it. I was invited to participate in a drum circle with an offer to pay for my flight to which I replied that I would love to join, but they would also have to pay for drum lessons. I got a m…

Unsubscribe, man, I'm jealous. Some dude 2,000 miles away from me has bought a Lexus and now I get regular emails about the status of his vehicle, receipts for all work done to it, and reminders of all maintenance not done to it. For a year and counting. Each email helpfully includes instructions for unsubscribing: First, you log into the Lexus app... I finally got fed up with it and reported them to abuse@.

Well, since you have the email, you can log in to the Lexus app. Then you could turn off the notifications.

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by x3n0ph3n3 »

jasonv wrote: post #180
robbyking wrote: post #172

A coworker of mine got an email once containing important scholarship information intended for a high school kid in Florida. He did a little looking online and found the kid's and his parent's actual email addresses and forwarded the email to them. So here's where it gets weird/dumb: the kid replies to my friend and his parents and says, "hey mom, you put the wrong email address on my application, there's no dot in m…

I occasionally see a public-ish figure with a website where they publish their email address. This last week, saw someone who advertised their "@cox.com" address. I move way too often to have any kind of confidence in a utility email address like that.

You mean cox.net? I think cox.com is for COX employees. Comcast does the same thing with comcast.com and comcast.net

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by stan_rogers »

thrill wrote: post #2

90% of the spam I get when I occasionally review it has dropped the dot in some silly effort to canonicalize my address, so yeah, the dot matters, as I filter the non-dotted address.

Same here. The "no dot goes to trash" rule catches an awful lot of spam.

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by amingilani »

fanf2 wrote: post #159
amingilani wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eventually you start getting a bunch of spam. I feel most of mine originated from GitHub and data-leaks. Tip: configure a catch-all to your email address, and use custom email addresses for every website. I love having e.g. news.ycombinator.com@gilani.me and being able to filter out bad email addresses whenever they become tiresome. I've also configured Mailgun on the domain (not what it was intended for but ¯\_(ツ)_/…

Setting up catch-all email addresses is a recipe to get absolutely inundated with spam.

Possibly, but I pipe my email through Gmail so I haven't noticed.

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by johnkarahalis »

renewiltord wrote: post #190

Someone registered for Facebook with myname@gmail.com. I'd registered with my.name@gmail.com and when I got the email that I'd added the account I clicked yes before reading (that's a mistake you make at most once) and now that guy has a Facebook account I can't log in to and I can't remove this email from the account and I can't remove the notifications either. Part of the reason is that Facebook verifies you're the…

Password reset?

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

mrcu5 wrote: post #185
Santosh83 wrote: post #6

I have been getting financial emails from several people for many years at my GMail ID. They apparently have given my address but without the dot. But what mystifies me is how these people keep going for years without ever realising they aren't getting account transaction emails (from their banks), notifications of stock trades, even OTP emails etc. How is it possible for people to use these services for years withou…

I'm confused. Do people just assume they can think of an email address and Google somehow knows and assigns it to them automatically? Like they're signing up for something and put in "santosh83@gmail.com" and think "My name is Santosh and I was born in '83. Google obviously knows this and will send me this email!" ????????

I can't see that being the case (except exceedingly rarely) but perhaps if they had "santosh83@live.com" on an MS device and then got a device with Google mail they think their address is now "santosh83@gmail.com"? Or they're just nuts ...

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by jeffbee »

renewiltord wrote: post #190

Someone registered for Facebook with myname@gmail.com. I'd registered with my.name@gmail.com and when I got the email that I'd added the account I clicked yes before reading (that's a mistake you make at most once) and now that guy has a Facebook account I can't log in to and I can't remove this email from the account and I can't remove the notifications either. Part of the reason is that Facebook verifies you're the…

In gmail, open the settings, go to "Accounts", add an address to "Send mail as ..." then you can send mail with as many dots as you like.

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by FabHK »

liquidgecka wrote: post #85
MaxBarraclough wrote: post #33

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There's an xkcd for everything. Sure, that's probably my email address. https://xkcd.com/1279/

Annoyingly that is different, everything after the + is _ignored_ so only one person can have + @gmail.com. Other people I am guessing use first.lastname and that is where the confusion is. =)

The plus sign in the comic might just be meant to denote string concatenation (in other words, jsmith@gmail.com, not j+smith@gmail.com).

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by boring_twenties »

williamscales wrote: post #191
boring_twenties wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unsubscribe, man, I'm jealous. Some dude 2,000 miles away from me has bought a Lexus and now I get regular emails about the status of his vehicle, receipts for all work done to it, and reminders of all maintenance not done to it. For a year and counting. Each email helpfully includes instructions for unsubscribing: First, you log into the Lexus app... I finally got fed up with it and reported them to abuse@.

Well, since you have the email, you can log in to the Lexus app. Then you could turn off the notifications.

I'm not sure about this but wouldn't that be a felony?

Re: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

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Post by renewiltord »

johnkarahalis wrote: post #195
renewiltord wrote: post #190

Someone registered for Facebook with myname@gmail.com. I'd registered with my.name@gmail.com and when I got the email that I'd added the account I clicked yes before reading (that's a mistake you make at most once) and now that guy has a Facebook account I can't log in to and I can't remove this email from the account and I can't remove the notifications either. Part of the reason is that Facebook verifies you're the…

Password reset?

Won't let you in unless your friends (well, his friends) validate it's you. Tried it!
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