On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:51:10 -0700 (PDT), Rick C ><gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 8:34:53 AM UTC-4, Ajo Wissink wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:15:36 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
<dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
In <7rl6kfl36rq3ca507e97jc77iakdn5ehpo@4ax.com> micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> writes:
Email but not Eudora
My nephew finally gave me his email address, and it is
first.middlelast@gmail.com
where those are his first , mddle, and last names, and there is a dot
between the first and second, but no dot before the last.
I thought that's what he said but figured the connection from South
America was bad and I put in the extra dot.
And he got the email anyhow, promptly Because he replied to me
promptly and his from: address didn't have the second dot.
the "gmail" e-mail server is pretty lenient about whether
and where you put the periods. So, "first.middle.last" will
often work, as will "firstmiddle.last", and even "first.mid.dle.last".
About five years ago I read an explanation as to why
they set it up this way, but damn if I remember...
It is even more than "pretty lenient".
You can put a period between all the characters and it will still
work.
Ok, so periods are ignored. Does it do this with other characters like underscore or dashes?
For years I have used a format that included a plus sign (+) to
identify who is selling my addy. In this form: >my.actual.addy+amazon.gmail.com
If I subsequently get spam with that extra +amazon then I pretty well
know that amazon sold me out. (Actually, Amazon didn't - but
others...?)
On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 8:34:53 AM UTC-4, Ajo Wissink wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:15:36 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
<dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
In <7rl6kfl36rq3ca507e97jc77iakdn5ehpo@4ax.com> micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> writes:
Email but not Eudora
My nephew finally gave me his email address, and it is
first.middlelast@gmail.com
where those are his first , mddle, and last names, and there is a dot
between the first and second, but no dot before the last.
I thought that's what he said but figured the connection from South
America was bad and I put in the extra dot.
And he got the email anyhow, promptly Because he replied to me
promptly and his from: address didn't have the second dot.
the "gmail" e-mail server is pretty lenient about whether
and where you put the periods. So, "first.middle.last" will
often work, as will "firstmiddle.last", and even "first.mid.dle.last".
About five years ago I read an explanation as to why
they set it up this way, but damn if I remember...
It is even more than "pretty lenient".
You can put a period between all the characters and it will still
work.
Ok, so periods are ignored. Does it do this with other characters like underscore or dashes?
On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:15:26 -0500, welkinatorGoogle groups is very odd about email addresses in the message. They hide them supposedly requiring a click and some sort of human detection to see the actual address. But for some time now this has been dysfunctional. Just now it opened a captcha
<welkinat...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:51:10 -0700 (PDT), Rick C
<gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 8:34:53 AM UTC-4, Ajo Wissink wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:15:36 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
<dan...@panix.com> wrote:
In <7rl6kfl36rq3ca507...@4ax.com> micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> writes: >>> >
Email but not Eudora
My nephew finally gave me his email address, and it is
first.mi...@gmail.com
where those are his first , mddle, and last names, and there is a dot >>> >>between the first and second, but no dot before the last.
I thought that's what he said but figured the connection from South >>> >>America was bad and I put in the extra dot.
And he got the email anyhow, promptly Because he replied to me
promptly and his from: address didn't have the second dot.
the "gmail" e-mail server is pretty lenient about whether
and where you put the periods. So, "first.middle.last" will
often work, as will "firstmiddle.last", and even "first.mid.dle.last". >>> >
About five years ago I read an explanation as to why
they set it up this way, but damn if I remember...
It is even more than "pretty lenient".
You can put a period between all the characters and it will still
work.
Ok, so periods are ignored. Does it do this with other characters like underscore or dashes?
For years I have used a format that included a plus sign (+) to
identify who is selling my addy. In this form: >my.actual.addy+amazon.gmail.com
If I subsequently get spam with that extra +amazon then I pretty wellArrrggghhh >> my.actual....@gmail.com << of course!
know that amazon sold me out. (Actually, Amazon didn't - but
others...?)
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