On Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 9:17:08 AM UTC-4, welkinator wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:15:26 -0500, welkinator
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:51:10 -0700 (PDT), Rick C
<[email protected]> 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
<[email protected]> wrote:
In <[email protected]> micky <[email protected]> writes: >>> >
Email but not Eudora
My nephew finally gave me his email address, and it is
[email protected]
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 >> [email protected] << 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?
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