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Because it's a gmail address, you can put as many . as you want anywhere in the name. Gmail strips them out when determining the email address.
by ixwt 8y ago
Because it's a gmail address, you can put as many . as you want anywhere in the name. Gmail strips them out when determining the email address.
- williamdclt 8y agoNot as useful as `firstnamelastname+twitter@gmail.com` for example :/
- floatingatoll 8y agoNot as readable, but each inter-character spot is a bit, and if you have 11 bits, you can represent 2^11 addresses. EDIT: Assumes Zero or One periods per bit-gap; if you can chain them, the sky’s the limit.
- ixwt 8y agoI just tested it with a bunch of periods. I got rejected with just two periods adjacent, and with quite a few more periods adjacent. So only bits. Looks like it can be used for filtering too.
- dimensi0nal 8y agoDots cannot appear consecutively in the local-part unless quoted.
- macspoofing 8y agoI never understood why that was useful. If you're a spammer that harvests email address or if you're an unscrupulous service that sells your user email address to spammers, wouldn't you simply remove the '+' suffix from any gmail address before commencing your spamming?