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 -- Mark "Pockets" Clohesy Mob Phone: (+61) 406 417 877 Email: hiddensoul@twistedsouls.com G-Talk: mark.clohesy@gmail.com GNU/Linux..Linux Counter #457297 - "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code" "Linux is user friendly...its just selective about who its friends are"