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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.
good to see moderators are as lazy as I am
When gmail first opened I registered the address blah@gmail.com About a year later, I started to receive all these strange e-mails that were obviously not addressed to me. I come to find out that someone had registered the address bla.h@gmail.com. They would send out e-mails to folks, and when they responded the e-mail went to my account and not to bla.h's account. I've also heard that Gmail's developers had the bright idea of trying to eliminate the concept of "bounced" mail. They believed they could build a system that could accurately guess, based on algarithums and patterns, the address the e-mail was intended to if a person typed in the wrong address. I think they have actually played around with this a bit... for a while I could send an e-mail to blahz@gmail.com or blahs@gmail and it would "guess" that the e-mail was actually meant for blah@gmail.com. It was guessing what the real intended address was to auto-deliver e-mail's with typos. A kind of "Did You Mean?" feature for e-mail. In my humble opinion, Google needs to fix these problems if they want their e-mail service to be taken serious.
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