Well, they don't shut down things where the user is the product.
*@gmail.com
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Anecdata is a humorous term for "anecdotal evidence", i.e. it is not real "data". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anecdata#Noun
I think the problem he has with the word is data is the plural(!) for singular datum. So one data is datum, two cactuses are cacti, and two datas is data. Maybe not always colloquially but technically. Hence anecdatum and anecdata.
It depends on where you are. In the US it's like you say. But in the UK for example they will often use data as singular.
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Exactly. The dots are useful from a UX perspective, as it makes "incorrectly addressed" email more obvious. I've spent way too much time thinking about this. Well, specifically about the kind of person who would use an email address they don't own to (a) buy a house, (b) apply for a FL sheriff's job, (c) conduct financial transactions, etc. (all actual examples I've received). You think you have a bead on how ignoran…
I think there's also a distinct possibility that the senders just have the wrong email address, especially when it contains a name. You could own steve.brown@gmail.com but someone you only occasionally do business with might have accidentally put down steven.brown@gmail.com when you first met. Emails back and forth will work (because they can reply to your emails) but when they try to send you email, someone else wil…
I generally try and reply with "This email address isn't owned by the person you're trying to reach. Please reach out to them and reconfirm what email they want you to use."
Responses have been pretty bizarre though. I usually get what amounts to an "Okay".
I would have expected some sort of "Could you please delete those sensitive documents we sent you?" at minimum.
Also bizarre... I don't have a very common name or email address for my main Gmail.
I can only imagine what john.smith@gmail.com has to deal with.
From a solution / feature perspective, it'd be nice to have a auto-response + trash on anything other than allowlisted dots and plusses. Maybe Gmail supports this? The worst offenders finally got the picture, so I didn't dig into it.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This 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. Genuinely confused - which other people? There are no other people with your Gmail address but added/removed '.' characters. What you're seeing is people sending emails to the wrong email address - nothing to do with presence or absence of '.' characters. Allowing addresses…
I’ve got firstname.lastname@gmail.com and apparently someone with my same name believes they have the address with no dot, as they keep signing up for services like Facebook with it and sharing it with their friends who email me. It is quite the odd situation. I reply to their friends saying they have the wrong email, but they don’t seem to believe me. And they keep signing up for things despite presumably never bein…
probably has two email accounts, on with firstnamelastname and the other with @gmail.com, and keeps mixing them up
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was still curious about the exact response, therefore I see no harm in posting that.
Will Google introduce a special error message in reference to this xkcd in the future for the fun? After all, the Python project has "import antigravity".
2005 google would. 2023 google I don’t think would.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This 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. Genuinely confused - which other people? There are no other people with your Gmail address but added/removed '.' characters. What you're seeing is people sending emails to the wrong email address - nothing to do with presence or absence of '.' characters. Allowing addresses…
I’ve got firstname.lastname@gmail.com and apparently someone with my same name believes they have the address with no dot, as they keep signing up for services like Facebook with it and sharing it with their friends who email me. It is quite the odd situation. I reply to their friends saying they have the wrong email, but they don’t seem to believe me. And they keep signing up for things despite presumably never bein…
I always wondered if those people don't notice something is broken.
Given how reliably this happens, I guess the answer is "no". It's also probably a very small number of people, just 1 or 2 with each commonly used name. But still every common name has those 1 or 2.
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> 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 tak…
I’ve gotten emails from some other Gmail account, for example an Uber receipt. I found that by digging in the header that there was a “x-forwarded-to:” to me. My guess is that the original user accidentally configured a bad email forward.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you clarify how ignoring the dots is a problem?
To borrow an example from Internet domain names, consider: experts.exchang@gmail.com expert.sexchange@gmail.com Those addresses would be identical by Gmail's parsing conventions.
Actually, only one ends in 'e', therefore Gmail would treat them as distinct.
It's spelling errors, not the dots, that are usually the source of misdirected emails (and also, wrong domains).
Kind of ironic that you proved the opposite point of what you intended.
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I think there's also a distinct possibility that the senders just have the wrong email address, especially when it contains a name. You could own steve.brown@gmail.com but someone you only occasionally do business with might have accidentally put down steven.brown@gmail.com when you first met. Emails back and forth will work (because they can reply to your emails) but when they try to send you email, someone else wil…
I generally try and reply with "This email address isn't owned by the person you're trying to reach. Please reach out to them and reconfirm what email they want you to use." Responses have been pretty bizarre though. I usually get what amounts to an "Okay". I would have expected some sort of "Could you please delete those sensitive documents we sent you?" at minimum. Also bizarre... I don't have a very common name or…
Gmail does support conditional auto replies and filters. You could probably filter out most typos if you stick to your own format for every website and contact you have.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve got firstname.lastname@gmail.com and apparently someone with my same name believes they have the address with no dot, as they keep signing up for services like Facebook with it and sharing it with their friends who email me. It is quite the odd situation. I reply to their friends saying they have the wrong email, but they don’t seem to believe me. And they keep signing up for things despite presumably never bein…
I always wondered if those people don't notice something is broken. Given how reliably this happens, I guess the answer is "no". It's also probably a very small number of people, just 1 or 2 with each commonly used name. But still every common name has those 1 or 2.
I wonder if this could be intentional for identity theft or registering an account without using your own mail. Consistently forgetting one's e-mail is a bit weird, but makes sense too of course.