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Gmail Mis.delivered?
An anonymous reader writes "Google doesn't make many mistakes but when it does, boy, are they doozies! The latest is that Gmail doesn't care about periods in usernames. So mail sent to anonymous.coward@gmail.com is also delivered to anonymouscoward@gmail.com, even though these are two separate mail accounts. Google admits Gmail doesn't see periods, but no word on a fix yet." Update: As may users have pointed out Ars has since corrected the story, stating that the original submitter was mistaken and the email was just improperly addressed.
I can't believe Google is disrespecting users with periods.
Since there is no word on a fix yet, it would be interesting if Microsoft rolls out a 3rd party patch which warns Gmail users when the recipient email address has periods in it.
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Bloopers like this make me check the calender, sounds like perfect April 1st Slashdot news.
I have a friend from college that I met through a mistakenly delivered email. She was trying to send to someone with the email address like "rjm987@someotherschool.edu", but she accidentally put a space between the "m" and the "9", so the system delived it to one of my class accounts with the username "rjm". We became good friends and still email each other now and then, a decade later.
So, it can be a great way to meet new people!
so uhm BaD. Can I have my email address back? I miss my newsletter.
The CB App. What's your 20?
Please stop posting my email address on Slashdot. Think of all the evil spammers!
Thanks,
A.C.
The down-side is he subscribed to XM ENTERTAINMENT's porn newsletter.
Don't worry, I just got him back big time! I subscribed you to about a dozen porn newsletters. He'll be completely inundated with porn spam in no time! No need to thank me, helping other people is its own reward.
they turned evil! It had to happen!
Just the other day, I was overjoyed that Google was fighting for my rights, now I'm dissapointed to learn that they're not fighting for women's rights too.
I can only imagine what Condoleezza Rice & Hillary Clinton will have to say about this.
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Not much better place to embarrass yourself than on the front page of /. ... :)
you had me at #!
You get mail? I've signed up for tons of stuff and nobody sends anything to my $sys$@gmail.com account.
For the life of me, I can't figure out why.
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I read your Email.
Someone must have a version of my G-Mail account with a period in it. Apparently, they're very into penis enlargement...
It is a G spot.
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Google doesn't make many mistakes but when it does, boy, are they doozies
I'm not American and I'm not sure I understand. What is a "doozy" and should I be worried if I have one? I'm hoping it isn't the kind of thing I can catch just from using the internet.
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What is this "Slashdot" you speak of? We only see a site called "Slash"
... and then they built the supercollider.
I experienced this first-hand. I was surprised to see a registration confirmation in my inbox for Lavalife when I have never even been to the site and already have a girlfriend. Awkward, to say the least. It let me log on to his acccount information, and it turns out he's a married guy in Australia looking for a little "fun" on the side. If I were as sneaky as him, he'd be in the doghouse for a few months...
So very true. In fact, this is the real reason why spammers do what they do - send out as much mails to as much people they can reach, in the hope to find that one true person in their life.
They even offer rewards in their emails! Such good people...
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I hate to point this out to you, but you need a username before the "@" symbol. That could be why no one is sending anything. Hope this helps.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, however, there is.
Well, "Ars doesn't make many mistakes but when it does, boy, are they doozies!"
"Google doesn't make many mistakes..."
;)
Well, see what Google suggests ("Did you mean...?") when you search on "landlords required to give heat"
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