Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

Post by pwinnski » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 7:55 PM UTC

bookofjoe wrote: post #309

pwinnski wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Synchronicity: You joined HN June 28, 2016 I joined May 8, 2016

Post by chrisgd » Thu, Sep 03, 2020, 1:06 PM UTC

dhritzkiv wrote: post #27

chrisgd wrote: post #3

My email is firstlast I use first.last for subscriptions I am unsure I want to keep. I can then filter out based on to address and also use diff combinations when I already know I don’t want them contacting me (firs.tlast) for example

If you use the + character (e.g. `firstlast+subscriptions`) it'll still arrive to your `firstlast` inbox, but will allow you to filter it more meaningfully.