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While I agree with you from a technical perspective, Netflix isn't going to be the only one with this particular issue. If you addressed the issue at gmail, you
by axoltl 9y ago
While I agree with you from a technical perspective, Netflix isn't going to be the only one with this particular issue. If you addressed the issue at gmail, you can be sure you've fixed it for all the little leaves.
- nybble41 9y agoThe problem with this reasoning is that doing away with the "dots don't matter" policy would not fix the more general issue of e-mail aliasing. Besides variations in dots, there are also "+labels" (which Netflix must also consider a valid and necessary part of the e-mail address, per the RFCs) and the fact that for every "xyz@gmail.com" address there is an equivalent "xyz@googlemail.com" address. Unlike "dots don't matter", labels are a useful and well-liked feature, supported by many mail servers (though not always using "+" as the delimiter). Removing them would be an extremely unpopular move on Google's part. No account-related emails (other than e-mail validation) should be sent to the e-mail address on file until it has been validated. Period.