On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
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.
I thought Mark Trickett said another person was using the same account name on gmail but with the period ie mark.clohesy vs markclohesy <quote> Mark T 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, and I get variously strange emails now and then </quote> I agree Gmail ignores periods and wont let me create another account so I am curious how two accounts can exist on gmail one that is Mark's and one that is someone else as googles backend wont let you create the two accounts only varying by a period ? Hence my comment and test, I agree a period "should" be a valid character in an email address but in this use case ie Gmail it is not
- 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?
As stated above I agree it is ignorance of a period on Gmails part
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.
Yep agree again
Cheers A.
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