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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by scrame on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:25PM (#16783075)
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.

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by mcpherrinm on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:46PM (#16784107)
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.

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