Actually from what I read from it, is it created the username as george.abraham for login purposes, but it ignores the .'s when routing mail. So you will get email for georgeabraham, george.abraham, geo.rge.abra.ham, etc...
> -----Original Message----- > From: George Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:20 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: WOT: Gmail's interesting approach to usernames > > But I can't login as georgeabraham only as george.abraham, so that > conflicts > with the implementation. > > George > > On 1/17/06, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From reading their site, it sounds like your email address is really > > georgeabraham(AT)gmail.com. I'm not positive, but when I read that page > > you posted the link to, it looked like the gmail server just ignore > > anything with a (.) in them, so when you signed up for george.abraham, > > their server really created it as georgeabraham. Otherwise they would > > have conflicts, like you are describing. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Michael Traher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:09 PM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Re: WOT: Gmail's interesting approach to usernames > > > > > > It would be OK if they had stopped the second George Abraham > > > to sign up from > > > using that name! > > > > > > Otherwise it is a seriously flawed design! > > > > > > [INFO] -- Access Manager: > > This transmission may contain information that is privileged, > confidential > > and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the > > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, > copying, > > distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any > > reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this > transmission > > in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material > in > > its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. > A2 > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229884 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
