Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by Pxtl on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:40PM
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Good to know. I had accidentally created multiple accounts for myself around '05 or so and was really surprised by it. Iirc back then they also required separate accounts per-country, but I could be wrong about that.
Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by uiri on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:03PM
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I don't think they require separate accounts per-country, but my only experience is with .com and .ca. They might do the accounts on a per-realm basis (North America, Far East, Europe, etc.) rather than strictly per-country.
Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by tough_luck on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:22PM
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I have same account (same mail) with amazon that works across their .com, .in, .fr., .co.uk
Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by stordoff on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:56PM
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They still do AFAICT (I had to sign up for a Japanese account relatively recently).
Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by AnssiH on Saturday April 07, 2018 @06:45PM
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Amazon Japan and Amazon China are the only ones that have separate accounts from the rest of the Amazon sites.
Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by scrame on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:25PM
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Naw, I left about 10 years ago and out was still there, and still had co-workers at a different job asking me about it a couple years later, because they got bit by it.
The justification I heard was that someone would have a personal and business (or library) account to the same email, but it definitely persisted longer than you think.
Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by mcpherrinm on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:46PM
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Well, they were enabled but you couldn't create new ones when I joined 7 years ago. I was under the impression they'd long since been retired at that point. Given the turnover there, ancient lore could have only been a year or two before that.
I had to jump through some hoops to get one of the accounts to test something I worked on with them.
I think it was a valid design decision at the time, before accounts on websites were widespread and a family might only have a single email address from their ISP.
The rise of free webmail accounts from Hotmail etc changed that, of course. And now we have a shared understanding of how accounts on websites should work. Neither of those were true in 1994.