Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2013 9:40 pm, Hiddensoul (Mark Clohesy) wrote:
I just logged out of my gmail account which is mark.clohesy@gmail.com and tried to create a new account markclohesy@gmail.com and got the following message from google..
Someone already has that username. Note that we ignore periods and capitalization in usernames. Try another?
Okay.
I would guess in your case the period has nothing to do with it and that the person has mistyped the email address spelling
No, it confirms the case rather than denies it. - you logged out of mark.clohesy@ - you tried to create a new account markclohesy@ - Google said an account already exists.... [your normal one.] How is that not absolute confirmation of the ignorance of period characters? Already, the RFC takes away capitalization from emails, unless I am mistaken, but periods should be accepted as one of any of the available "normal" characters for the local part of the email address. Cheers A.