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Reminds me of the early GMail bug, where you could sign up with "john.smith", "jo.hn.smi.th" or "johnsmith", but all mail was delivered to the period-less versi

• knome 13y ago
  That isn't a bug. Even the article you link notes that it is a feature, though they seem for some reason incredulous. I've always liked that they do this on my accounts.
• Maxious 13y ago
  The link agrees - it's a feature not a bug and one that considered security: > As it turns out, even though Gmail will act as if there is no period in a username when delivering mail, it will not permit users to register accounts whose only difference to other account is a period. That is, if bob.jones is registered, bobjones cannot get an account (he could get bobjones2, obviously).
• praseodym 13y ago
  You could (and still can) only register one of those addresses. Mail from the other two will be delivered to that address. So, it's not a bug but rather a pretty nice feature: ever seen a handwritten email address with a period squeezed in there?