> Otherwise, how could she not notice she never receives anything? She may be getting it at f.lastname@gmail.com. I signed up for Gmail the first or second da

> Otherwise, how could she not notice she never receives anything? She may be getting it at f.lastname@gmail.com. I signed up for Gmail the first or second day it came out with first.last@gmail.com, but hardly ever log(ged) in over the years. A little while ago I did go into it and noticed getting a bunch of message to firstlast@gmail.com. Now Gmail allows for 'customized' addresses in that you can drop a period anywhere and it will still go to your address. But this raised the risk of one person signing up with first.last and another person signing up with firstlast. Supposedly this is prevented, but I think that they did not catch this situation in the early days of the service, and so a bunch of OG accounts have cross-contamination.