On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 21:40 +1000, Hiddensoul (Mark Clohesy) wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Mark Trickett <marktrickett@bigpond.com> wrote:
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, and I get variously strange emails now and then. Fortunately not pron, but latest was confirmation on a gaming network. My "gaming" is programming.
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?
I would guess in your case the period has nothing to do with it and that the person has mistyped the email address spelling
Except that it has happened repeatedly, more so previously. Not quite certain of that. The spelling is "correct", and suchlike. There are other people around the world with the same first and family names, but I suspect that add in my middle name and quite unlikely to match another person. There is also a slender chance of a measure of malice. As to why suspect pig ignorance, the gaming company email indicated a persistent use of the identity, legitimately, in that space, and not quite certain of how or why they tried to use my email moniker. Regards, Mark Trickett