It is, but the key point is that this doesn't lead to people sending mail to the wrong address since nobody can sign up to "the wrong address" in the first place. There's one address allowed, aliased to all permutations.
It does lead to people sending mail to the wrong address, from personal experience since Gmail was in beta. I've gotten sensitive emails and account signups with different dots for years.
But the cause of that appears to be user error -- people thinking they own email addresses that are not actually theirs.
The point is "ignoring dots" doesn't lead to "constantly getting e-mail for other people" (because there are no other people that own the "dotted" version of the email).
It does though. My gmail account has a dot. For some reason someone with a similar name to mine must have for believed his address was the non dotted version of mine and to this day I keep getting emails addressed to this other person... and yes, it is a real person who I've managed to contact.
The point is that without the dots rule I'd never get those emails, and the senders would get their message bounced back right away.
nmeofthestate|2 years ago
ethbr1|2 years ago
But the cause of that appears to be user error -- people thinking they own email addresses that are not actually theirs.
ludwik|2 years ago
dellamonica|2 years ago
The point is that without the dots rule I'd never get those emails, and the senders would get their message bounced back right away.
citizenkeen|2 years ago
You can write rules on f.oo to go a different path than fo.o.