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*@gmail.com
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Re: *@gmail.com
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you give an example please? How dose ignoring dots cause you to receive other peoples mail?
johndoe@gmail.com and john.doe@gmail.com are obviously two different addresses. At least for me. I don't see why the first one should receive mails from the second one.
They are not different in gmail terms.
If you have John.Doe registered, no one can register johndoe or any with or without dots version.
Gmail (rightly or wrongly, whatever) ignore the dots when creating your account and deliver any with or without dots combination to you.
You’re not receiving anyone else’s mail and no one could have registered another account with/without dots to conflict with it.
Re: *@gmail.com
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't a bug. Instead of clicking the "login" button on discord's home page, you clicked the "Open discord in your browser" button. This, by default if you're not logged in, takes you to a create account flow. The prompt you entered your _username_ into was the "Pick a display name" prompt. If you enter, say, "user" it silently adds numbers to your displayname to make a new username ("user1234"), rather than redi…
> I know people who use hacker news are on-average much less tech savvy than the average discord user Sarcasm? Serious question. I used Discord exactly once, many years ago, and it appeared to be mostly children playing video games. I hear things have changed, but it’s hard to imagine a more tech savvy group than HN.
>I used Discord exactly once, many years ago, and it appeared to be mostly children playing video games.
I'd assume kids are better at navigating modern dark patterns, having grown up with them.
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#104This is a great reminder that Gmail ignores dots on the left side of the @ symbol, which means I am constantly getting e-mail for other people. The “+” tagging was a great idea, but the fact that incorrect address matching has become a “feature” (and not fixed over decades) plus constant spates of spam has made me believe there’s nobody left at the helm who actually understands e-mail. I’ve kept my Gmail addresses fo…
That's a feature, it is by design and some folks like it. I do. Surprising to hear people are hitting your inbox with the oddball period.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is, but the key point is that this doesn't lead to people sending mail to the wrong address since nobody can sign up to "the wrong address" in the first place. There's one address allowed, aliased to all permutations.
It does lead to people sending mail to the wrong address, from personal experience since Gmail was in beta. I've gotten sensitive emails and account signups with different dots for years. But the cause of that appears to be user error -- people thinking they own email addresses that are not actually theirs.
> I've gotten sensitive emails and account signups with different dots for years.
Please, please give an example..
Also, read this..
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en#zippy=%...
> if your email is johnsmith@gmail.com, you own all dotted versions of your address
> If anyone tries to create a Gmail account with a dotted version of your username, they'll get an error saying the username is already taken.
> Your account is still private and secure. Emails sent to any dotted version of your address will only go to you.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
One problem I've encountered is that usually sites won't allow you to register an account if the email address is already registered at that site. So if I register foo@gmail.com then someone else can't accidentally register foo@gmail.com. But they can register f.o.o@gmail.com just fine. So I mean at my Gmail I have all manner of different Facebook accounts with various misspelling of my email address notifying me of…
LOL this reminds me of a hilarious bug (but only in hindsight!) I had with Discord just three days ago! I tried to login to Discord. It detected a novel browser or location. Sure, this stuff can happen. It wanted to confirm that I was still me and asked me for my e-mail address. I gave it and it said "This e-mail address is already registered". What. Of course it is. It's me. Mine. The one I have registered with you.…
I've done this at least twice for the same reasons, and it's lead to me pulling my number off discord twice now. It's stupid how similar logging in and creating an account look.
Re: *@gmail.com
#107This is a great reminder that Gmail ignores dots on the left side of the @ symbol, which means I am constantly getting e-mail for other people. The “+” tagging was a great idea, but the fact that incorrect address matching has become a “feature” (and not fixed over decades) plus constant spates of spam has made me believe there’s nobody left at the helm who actually understands e-mail. I’ve kept my Gmail addresses fo…
The “+” aspect mostly works great but has some weird edge cases when other companies don’t accept them. For example, I have a few apple ids using this feature, from moving to different countries. Apple no longer allows new accounts using “+”. My existing accounts work for iCloud, app, store etc but they do not work for logging into Apple support.
Re: *@gmail.com
#108This happened internally at Reuters, it was hilarious.
This was featured in the early episodes of HBO Newsroom.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
LOL this reminds me of a hilarious bug (but only in hindsight!) I had with Discord just three days ago! I tried to login to Discord. It detected a novel browser or location. Sure, this stuff can happen. It wanted to confirm that I was still me and asked me for my e-mail address. I gave it and it said "This e-mail address is already registered". What. Of course it is. It's me. Mine. The one I have registered with you.…
This isn't a bug. Instead of clicking the "login" button on discord's home page, you clicked the "Open discord in your browser" button. This, by default if you're not logged in, takes you to a create account flow. The prompt you entered your _username_ into was the "Pick a display name" prompt. If you enter, say, "user" it silently adds numbers to your displayname to make a new username ("user1234"), rather than redi…
You're trolling, right? Discord's sign up pattern is similar enough I've actually made this mistake not once, but twice. I think it's closer to a failure of design than anything else - it's almost never correct to blame user error for things like this.
Re: *@gmail.com
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just one anecdata, but in my case, all of the unwanted signups I get on my gmail address are not due to dots - they are flat out because people input my email address exactly the same way as I would - without dots. I think it's more a side-effect of gmail being "the" global email namespace for millions of people, not because of anything their service itself is doing.
Sorry to nitpick, but I believe that "anecdata" is strictly plural and as such "one anecdata" is grammatically incorrect. It should probably be just "one anecdote", but if you want to emphasize the "data" aspect, I'd go with "one point of anecdata" or more concisely - "one anecdatum". Somewhat surprisingly to me, "anecdatum" has apparently never yet appeared in print [0], and I'm happy for the two of us to share cred…
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