Fesshole 🧻Mar 2
Someone has an almost identical Gmail address as mine, but without the dot between first name and surname. However, Google doesn't care about the dot and I get most of their emails. I just cancelled a golfing holiday to Scotland for them. I can't stand golf.
Show threadBill

@fesshole

FUCK GOOGLE!

Why do they ignore a perfectly valid character in the left hand side of the address? Other than they can because they are an 800 pound gorilla.

Mar 2 at 1:33pmWeb
Show threadjackMar 2

@w_b @fesshole FUCK GOOGLE but this is a good idea, it would be really dumb to let [email protected] and [email protected] belong to different people and go to different inboxes

likewise they treat [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] as equivalent even though the email spec says these are three different addresses

and [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] also go to [email protected] (and will get automatically placed in inbox subfolders named work, travel, or whatever)

Show threadjackMar 2
@w_b @fesshole in short - fessor is wrong, the other person's gmail address is [email protected] or some other address that's more different than "mine, but with a dot between the first and last names". the other person is just terrible at remembering or accurately relaying their actual email address. or their partner's doing the booking and providing the wrong address by mistake
Show threadPomegranate_StewMar 2
@jackeric @w_b @fesshole
That was the issue with mine (not gmail). Whoever was using it was leaving off a number at the end when they’d give out their address. Aside from financial info, I was getting republican spam, so I signed them up for emails from democratic candidates once I figured out what their address was supposed to be.
Show threadSpace InvaderMar 2

@w_b @fesshole it isn’t Google, it’s part of the email specification. Last updated in 2008 in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322 but originally specified in 1982: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822

Every standards-compliant email provider will ignore a single “.” character and disallow it at the start and end of the local part (the left-side portion of the email address when a domain is specified)

RFC 5322: Internet Message Format

Show threadMark MasonMar 3

@spaceinvader @w_b @fesshole I read that as only the start or end like

[email protected]