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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by jv22222 on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:32AM (#16785076)
Still... I get so many other people's email because of this dot's don't matter feature it's very frustrating!

For example I'm regularly cc'd on a list of a South African film production company.

I often get invites to parties from a group of students in Georgia.

And, someone seems to use a dot alternative of my name to buy sex toys! And that is just a few!

I used to send back the emails saying "Hey you go the wrong person" until I realized it has no effect on these types of group emails.

Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by fjsolwmv on Sunday April 08, 2018 @11:46PM (#16790169)
Not because dots don't matter. That's unrelated. It's because people don't know or lie about their own email address.