One of my email addresses is {MyNameKP}@gmail.com. “KP” were just random letters I picked years ago and they don’t mean anything. I also own {MyName}@hotmail.com. Someone once asked why I don’t use {MyName}@gmail.com, so I went home to try to sign up for it, but Gmail said the address already exists. I figured someone else had it and might sell, so I emailed them. Gmail auto-replied that the address doesn’t exist. Why can’t I register an address that isn’t there? Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
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#122I don't understand why they don't allow different domains. "gmail.com" is running low on email addresses; if they added more domains, they'd be able to really scale up their email offering.
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#123Terrible idea. Will lead to nothing but chaos
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The problem is that's guessable. I add a nonce/salt/bit of random chars; enterprise_jeje38@example.com to compensate.
You're dealing with a different type of actor if that's necessary.
the problem is you don't know which actor you're going to be dealing with so you have to start off on that foot with everybody.
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What last name do your kids use?
Last name of father and mother, respectively. let motherLastName = "Carter Hughes" let fatherLastName = "Miller Thompson" let childLastName = "Miller Carter" let childFullName = "Jean Paul Miller Carter" Or so that is how it works in many countries around the world. You might ask, —“Why does the father’s last name go first and the mother’s second?”— That’s an old tradition, and it can change whenever enough people in…
You should have given a more complete example, where the parents themselves have long names to demonstrate that something does have to get dropped when you have children.
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As a hiring manager, I just want to give you a heads up that we are getting tons of fake applicants—like 5–10%—that end up being a real person on a video chat isn’t some AI assistant that uses a teleprompter interface to tell them what to say. Usually by that point you catch them, but your recruiter screen might not etc. So now all the main HR tools are using “age of email” as one possible signal to detect fraud. I’m…
How would you determine or estimate "age of email"? It isn't really public info. Does it imply that you are by now expected to be doxxed by data brokers to not be judged suspicious? > I’m sure you’re fine if your email is real (in my experience they all resolve to Onvoy LLC instead of a real cell provider), Email is expected to be resolving to "a real cell provider"? Wut?
> How would you determine or estimate "age of email"? It isn't really public info. Does it imply that you are by now expected to be doxxed by data brokers to not be judged suspicious?
There are services that let you do that. Imperfect ofc as they rely on data brokers like you said. You can thank all the spammers and carders for that
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#127There’s a class action suit about g suite free accounts that eventually become not free.
Wonder if this will be used for that at some point
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I have a first.last email, but it's created quite the interesting situation. Turns out some dude in Australia has the same first+last name as me, and he's been using firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I can find from Google's documentation, the email with no dots should be the primary and the one with dots an alias, but I'm guessing because I registered mine ages ago (back in 2006) it takes precedence. I have no idea how…
I have this same issue! But I can log in with or without dots… but it’s like someone else thinks their email is my email without the dots. I can’t really figure out what is happening. The volume is way too high for it to be spam though.
It would be just he uses a similar email, say last+first@gmail and gives it out incorrectly at times. Or people assume it is his. My friend has a first+last@gmail and I constantly confuse the order (or was it last+first? idk), a decade later. So you two are just seeing a subset of incorrectly addressed email, imo.
I remember a decade+ ago when this was discovered as some issue and caused a bunch of drama in the blogosphere.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last name of father and mother, respectively. let motherLastName = "Carter Hughes" let fatherLastName = "Miller Thompson" let childLastName = "Miller Carter" let childFullName = "Jean Paul Miller Carter" Or so that is how it works in many countries around the world. You might ask, —“Why does the father’s last name go first and the mother’s second?”— That’s an old tradition, and it can change whenever enough people in…
You should have given a more complete example, where the parents themselves have long names to demonstrate that something does have to get dropped when you have children.
Hughes and Thompson were both dropped in their example.
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#130Oh, finally. I’m one of the first.last@gmail folks, which I assumed would never change when I was 13 years old (hah!). Fast forward a few years, I got married, and am stuck with my old name in the address.
I have a first.last email, but it's created quite the interesting situation. Turns out some dude in Australia has the same first+last name as me, and he's been using firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I can find from Google's documentation, the email with no dots should be the primary and the one with dots an alias, but I'm guessing because I registered mine ages ago (back in 2006) it takes precedence. I have no idea how…
Are you sure he actually has that address? I get lots of emails mistakenly sent to me, some via a dotted version of my address, but I'm pretty sure those people (or the ones trying to contact them) have just misremembered or typoed their actual address. I'd be very surprised if Google did allow firstlast and first.last to exist as distinct addresses tied to separate acccounts.