Hello Trent, On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:34 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Mark Trickett <marktrickett@bigpond.com> writes:
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 09:42 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
gmail and hotmail also support subaddresses.
I hear gmail also drops dots in the LHS, so x.y.z and xyz and xy.z all go to the same account -- this could be leveraged for the same purpose.
And this bites me. There is someone else out there who uses my Gmail email address, but with a dot between the first and second names
Indeed; I heard about this because it was used to attack amazon, by claiming your object never arrived and asking for it to be resent to <dead drop> instead because "you" are out of town this week. Apparently amazon doesn't check very hard that you're you.
(I didn't quite understand how that attack works, since it seems to me you'd want *amazon* to treat x.y and xy as the same, and gmail to treat them as different. Shrug.)
No, I am complaining that some "turkey" (being polite) is that they are trying to use an email address that they do not have access to as their own, and that it arrives in my inbox. I chose the "local" part of my email address with some thought. Someone else beat me to a shorter version which I use as a local login on my own box, and to some other not quite so short variants. The email content causes me to scratch my head for relevance, not gross offence with what has arrived so far. Regards, Mark Trickett