On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another one missed by none other than Google for their Gmail service is the
> "." . To Gmail, [email protected] is the same as [email protected] is the
> same as [email protected].
> Didn't know how many of you knew that or not.
According to Google, that's a feature. Their take is they didn't
want b.scott@ and bscott@ being two different recipients -- too easily
confused or used in a social engineering attack. Which I guess makes
sense, but (AFAIK) they don't apply the same filter to other funny
characters, so b_scott@ and bscott@ actually are two different
recipients. Go figure.
More problematic is the tendency for big email providers to have
many users with addresses of the form ${BASE}${NUMBER}@example.com.
So you get bscott@, bscott1@, bscott2@, bscott2112@, and so on. These
get confused by most people quite often -- especially for the poor guy
who has ${BASE}@example.com without any number.
I do agree with the recommendation to avoid any funny characters in
email addresses, host, and domain names. I even recommend avoiding
dots in email addresses. It's hard enough getting people to type this
stuff correctly without introducing punctuation.
-- Ben <[email protected]>
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