It would be OK if they had stopped the second George Abraham to sign up from using that name!
Otherwise it is a seriously flawed design! On 1/17/06, George Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > I happened to read the exchange where Gmail thought some CF-Talk mail was > spam and tagged it thus. > > Today, I just realized an interesting 'feature' about Gmail. I own a Gmail > account with the username george.abraham (note the period between the > words.) I Do NOT however own georgeabraham (no period between the words > george and abraham.) > > For the past 2 months, I have been intermittently getting email that was > addressed to georgeabraham(AT)gmail.com. I kept wondering why I am getting > this person's email. I finally decided to complain about/investigate it. I > found this in Gmail's FAQ. > > > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10313&bug=1&query=messages+dot&ctx=bugflow > > Is this acceptable? It sounds like a pretty interesting approach to > usernames to me. > > George > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229828 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
