Sheesh, I just tried it and had the exact same experience here, and to think I could have been using the original address I wanted without the dot that they wouldn't give me all these years...nice to know.
From: Lee Douglas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Google Username Assistance - huh? Making it a little more fun, I learned some time ago that Google doesn't look at the '.' in my address, but considers lee.douglas and leedouglas to be identical. What's maddening is that I originally tried to sign up as LeeDouglas and was told it was unavailable, hence I ended up with [email protected]. Now I get mail using both addresses. Sigh On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: OK, this seems very weird to me. For some time, mail addressed to [email protected] has been delivered to my [email protected] mailbox. I thought, at some point, I created the chouseman mailbox and configured forwarding. But I couldn't sign in to Google with the chouseman address and no attempts to use their automatic password reset worked. About 3 months ago I went the distance trying to reset the password, using the last resort method several times. Each time I received an automatic message telling me I should be able to access the account, but of course, I never could. And then today this comes in: ---------------------------- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Google Username Assistance We searched our database but we were unable to find any usernames associated with your email address [email protected]. <snipped instructions for accessing my account, which apparently doesn't exist> ---------------------------- So the takeaway from that message is what, exactly? There's no username, therefore there is no account associated with [email protected]? And nonetheless, I have to keep receiving e-mail for that address? I don't see where a Google account can have multiple e-mail addresses tied to it as Exchange can, but apparently that's what has happened? It's crap like this that will keep me from ever recommending cloud services from Google. Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Lee Douglas * Principal Phil Ellis Associates, Inc. PO Box 900 * Wrightsville Beach * NC * 28480-0900 Phone: 919-481-0160 Email: [email protected] * Web:http://www.pellis.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/leedouglas Recruiting Science & Technology Member: PDA / ISPE / ACS / RAPS / ASQ / AOAC Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Search and Recruiting. Celebrating 31 Years of Excellence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
