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Annoyingly that is different, everything after the + is _ignored_ so only one person can have <first>+<any lastname>@gmail.com. Other people I am guessing use f
by liquidgecka 6y ago
Annoyingly that is different, everything after the + is _ignored_ so only one person can have <first>+<any lastname>@gmail.com. Other people I am guessing use first.lastname and that is where the confusion is. =)
- tialaramex 6y agoThe XKCD cartoon isn't talking about a literal plus symbol. If you took it literally that would imply the actual email address is a single letter @gmail.com and although some ex-SRE people and others at Google have said there were ways to get short addresses for employees, nobody has suggested a single letter would be available even for them. For normal users the minimum was six characters.
- liquidgecka 6y agoI created and removed several single letter emails as part of a test once, and I made several short names (mine, spam@, etc). The biggest problem was that too short would take the backend down because it received more mail than could be indexes at the time so too short or too common would get deleted to protect the system. As far as I know Randal still has his though. :-) But yea your right about the plus I guess Ii didn't read it detailed enough.
- FabHK 6y agoThe plus sign in the comic might just be meant to denote string concatenation (in other words, jsmith@gmail.com, not j+smith@gmail.com).