I got a spot on answer from Hari - its Solved!

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> From: Hari Kurup <[email protected]>
> Reply-to: "I-Network Uganda" <[email protected]>
> To: I-Network Uganda <[email protected]>
> Subject: [i-network] Email Puzzle
> Date: 2 Sep 2010 10:16:56 +0200
> 
> 
> See excerpt below from
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313#
> ____
> Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can
> add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the
> actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only
> yours. In short:
> 
>     * [email protected] = [email protected]
>     * [email protected] = [email protected]
>     * [email protected] = [email protected]
> 
> All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you
> try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from
> it. You'll still go to your account.
> ____
> 
> --
> Hari
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Brian Ssennoga <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I Network,
> >
> > How is it that someone could receive an email on [email protected]
> > when the actual Gmail address is  [email protected] ?
> >
> > Has Gmail started to 'drop' the <dot> in some sort of approximation or what?
> > i must be missin something - and i sure hope someone here might know what it
> > is!
> >
> > Please help my (SPAM) troubled conscience...
> >
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