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nono.. its a single word that is common as a first and last name. There are a BUNCH of cases where its applicable! =) But yea, 5 characters. I was an early gmail SRE so I was able to circumvent the restrictions. =)
Was it ?
Later I joined as software engineer in a company, I came to know that good email is firstname.lastname@company.bla format, so I wanted to have my gmail id as firstname.lastname@gmail.com But it wasn't available. I was so desperate to have it that I decided to email the person who owns it, so I emailed on the id (having dot in it).
Guess What! I received my own email, requesting myself to handover the id. Then I did some tests to know if dot is making any sense or not. so tested like first.name.last.name etc.
Found this link way back then. Great to know that someone else found it after so long :)
And I can't trust Gmail anymore because of this.
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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…
Likewise -- I fall firmly into this XKCD https://xkcd.com/1279/ My e-doppelgängers have priced cars across the state of Ohio, been active in the PTA, pursued higher education in Germany, and seems to always be interested in commercial real estate in the outer boroughs of NYC. Though once -- I received an email asking me to please just apologize to my sister already. I replied, "I think you have the wrong email addres…
It's the same guy, who works in a Eastern European country, where I emigrated from.
The first instance, he was asking his supervisor to use his vacation time so he and family could make a trip to Mecca for Hajj. I chuckled and ignored it.
Second time random picture of some massive metal parts from what looked like some factory he works at.
Third time was this year, very recently and I received a pretty unnecessarily detailed email about how he had to turn back home because he had soiled himself while driving to work... That one made me worry he had gotten Covid.
I guess I'm this guy's boss now.
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Sure it was. I create an account, accept the terms and condition and put in your email address, your phone number and your street address. It's still my account, I am the one that accepted the conditions (you would cry foul if you were bound by the conditions you didn't accept).
If you want to be legalistic then the person who used the wrong email is in violation of CAN-SPAM[0], though my guess is courts don't have the time for petty matters like this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
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Sure it was. I create an account, accept the terms and condition and put in your email address, your phone number and your street address. It's still my account, I am the one that accepted the conditions (you would cry foul if you were bound by the conditions you didn't accept).
You have no legal business relationship with a service you've signed up for with no exchange of funds. An EULA is not a contract and they fully indemnify the service provider anyway. All you've done is initiate the creation of some database entries on someone else's property.
Yeah, no. Peace out dude, I'm done here.
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You can also use @googlemail.com domain name instead of @gmail.com to double the number of email addresses.
Yes, you could do even more shenanigans registering with the following: john.doe+uniquestring@gmail.com j.ohndoe+uniquestring@gmail.com jo.hndoe+uniquestring@gmail.com joh.ndoe+uniquestring@gmail.com johnd.oe+uniquestring@gmail.com johndo.e+uniquestring@gmail.com john.doe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com j.ohndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com jo.hndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com joh.ndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com john…
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You will often see people in France who have a @internet.provider address. The law here is that once you have it, you can keep it when changing providers at no cost, they have to make it available to you. I always found it weird, especially when you have so much choice of provider-free ones (less in France than in other countries but still)
I (and I believe most of us) never use the email address that the ISPs provide, just so we can have our own. Who would ever want to use the HenryBemis4618362783@ISP.com???
^^^ this is the reality of the world , with people for whom edge = internet.
Of course you can get your domain and self-host your MTA (I am sure that this is what you are doing because who would ever want to be dependent on some provider, seriously). You are in the 10^-(whatever)% of the population that understand these words - and that's the reason people have firstnamelastname7656@isp.com as the address.
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I was an early Gmail SRE so I was able to circumvent the restrictions. It was a bad idea it turns out. For a project I also created "spam@gmail.com" and caused a production outage due to the volume of mail it got forwarded. =) But yes your right, 6 characters is the minimum of "open" gmail accounts. I know of at least a dozen 2 character accounts created by insiders though.
I am 'pwinnski' nearly everywhere now, because on April 1, 2005, I was not allowed to create a gmail account of only the first five characters. Goodbye to 15 years of the old 5-character username, and hello to what is now 15 years of the new 8-character username! At the time, I thought about pestering my Google-employee friends, but decided to just suck it up.
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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?