• Email but not Eudora

    From welkinator@21:1/5 to welkinator+forte@gmail.com on Sun Jul 4 08:17:06 2021
    On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:15:26 -0500, welkinator
    <welkinator+forte@gmail.com> wrote:

    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...?)

    Arrrggghhh >> my.actual.addy+amazon@gmail.com << of course!

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  • From welkinator@21:1/5 to gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com on Sun Jul 4 08:15:26 2021
    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...?)

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  • From gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com@21:1/5 to welkinator on Mon Jul 12 07:06:12 2021
    On Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 9:17:08 AM UTC-4, welkinator wrote:
    On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:15:26 -0500, welkinator
    <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 well
    know that amazon sold me out. (Actually, Amazon didn't - but
    others...?)
    Arrrggghhh >> my.actual....@gmail.com << of course!
    Google 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
    with nothing else on the entire page. Clicking it does nothing. But I get the idea. The dot after amazon should have been an @ no doubt.

    So the plus sign and everything after is ignored? Wow!! I just did a test and that works for my domain arius.com email addresses as well. Maybe I can skip the hundreds of web site specific email addresses? No, not really. By giving everyone distinct
    addresses I can shut off any one offender. I have a few addresses I have done that with when the spam got out of control.

    Still, I don't recall ever hearing about this. I wonder if there are any email entry forms that don't allow the plus sign?

    --

    Rick C.

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