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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by ams6110 on Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:45PM (#16783716)
By that logic, [email protected] and [email protected] could be delivered to the same mailbox. When I read TFA my first thought was "what does the standard say about it" and it does sound like Netflix is the one making the wrong assumption here.

But I also see his point about how this can confuse users who don't realize this or are not using this behavior intentionally.

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by __david__ on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:57AM (#16784685)
> By that logic, [email protected] and [email protected] could be delivered to the same mailbox.

They absolutely could. Netflix can't assume they are or they aren't. Which means Netflix is doing the correct thing here. All they can know is that the emails are potentially different and so they should treat them as different emails.

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by spc476 on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:27PM (#16783860)
Yup. Since I run my own email server, I have 200 email addresses that are delivered to a single account. Some are service accounts (like [email protected]) but a lot are single-use email accounts to track the selling of email addresses and spam.
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