Sounds like they don't recognize the period by design. As long as they inform you ahead of time I guess I'm ok with it.... I wonder if it is non-compliant with an RFC out there somewhere....
-----Original Message----- From: George Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: WOT: Gmail's interesting approach to usernames All, I happened to read the exchange where Gmail thought some CF-Talk mail was spam and tagged it thus. Today, I just realized an interesting 'feature' about Gmail. I own a Gmail account with the username george.abraham (note the period between the words.) I Do NOT however own georgeabraham (no period between the words george and abraham.) For the past 2 months, I have been intermittently getting email that was addressed to georgeabraham(AT)gmail.com. I kept wondering why I am getting this person's email. I finally decided to complain about/investigate it. I found this in Gmail's FAQ. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10313&bug=1&query=messag es+dot&ctx=bugflow Is this acceptable? It sounds like a pretty interesting approach to usernames to me. George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229824 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
