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Actually, only one ends in 'e', therefore Gmail would treat them as distinct. It's spelling errors, not the dots, that are usually the source of misdirected em
by listenallyall 3y ago
Actually, only one ends in 'e', therefore Gmail would treat them as distinct.
It's spelling errors, not the dots, that are usually the source of misdirected emails (and also, wrong domains).
Kind of ironic that you proved the opposite point of what you intended.
- dredmorbius 3y agoThat is a tyop. The names were meant to be identical but for the dot position. experts.exchange@gmail.com expert.sexchange@gmail.com
- listenallyall 3y agoYes, I know, that's the whole point. The mistakes that most people (including yourself) are attributing to the dots, are actually usually caused by human carelessness -- spelling errors, mixing up gmail with hotmail, "dave" instead of "david" etc.
- dredmorbius 3y agoTrue. I made (and corrected) three further typos writing my correction. But the point remains that what I'd originally intended to show was that local-part email addresses which read differently, and in cases quite differently, but are identical save for the location of the dot, are treated identically by Gmail. And that in different contexts this might not be clear and/or lead to confusion.