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Post by utucuro » Fri, Sep 01, 2023, 8:29 AM UTC

mabbo wrote: post #156

_notreallyme_ wrote: post #128

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At amazon in 2010, someone sent an email to everyone on the "all" mailing list to ask if anyone had seen it. A reply-all storm ensued, and despite several people asking to stop hitting the reply-all button, it continued for several days. The management had to chime in and sometimes threatened people with punishment if they continued participating to the reply-all storm. If you ignored the conversation you may not hav…

The eventual solution was that email lists with more than k (500?) people on it required an admin to approve all messages going out on that list. It really simplified things.

Post by xigoi » Fri, Sep 01, 2023, 10:57 AM UTC

dellamonica wrote: post #154

ludwik wrote: post #91

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The point is "ignoring dots" doesn't lead to "constantly getting e-mail for other people" (because there are no other people that own the "dotted" version of the email).

It does though. My gmail account has a dot. For some reason someone with a similar name to mine must have for believed his address was the non dotted version of mine and to this day I keep getting emails addressed to this other person... and yes, it is a real person who I've managed to contact. The point is that without the dots rule I'd never get those emails, and the senders would get their message bounced back rig…

Post by venusenvy47 » Fri, Sep 01, 2023, 1:05 PM UTC

adrianmsmith wrote: post #7

laurentlb wrote: post #4

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Can you clarify how ignoring the dots is a problem?

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…

Post by davidkassa » Fri, Sep 01, 2023, 2:03 PM UTC

dinkleberg wrote: post #148

nmeofthestate wrote: post #86

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> 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…

Post by InsomniacL » Fri, Sep 01, 2023, 11:12 PM UTC

richardw wrote: post #182

InsomniacL wrote: post #176

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You own both FirstLast@gmail and first.last@gmail. Try send an email to both, and you should get both emails. They are likely making a typeo elsewhere in their email address which is causing the confusion. for example: Steve.foo@gmail.com stevenfoo@gmai.com Notice one is Steve and the other is Steven, the dot has nothing to do with it.

Please look at my example up thread. It’s the combination of mistakes amplified by the dots. The dots make it worse by far. I just searched for my name with no dots in my gmail. Man. It’s a dumpster fire. I have to put up with hundreds and hundred of wrong mails monthly because this feature amplifies the mistakes so much. And it adds to spam because other people type the wrong mails into forms and gmail “fixes” it by…