Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by sp332 on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:12AM
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Paypal still sends me someone else's email because they signed up with [email protected] whereas I signed up with [email protected]. Apparently there's some way to make an account there where the email is considered secondary and they just never verify it.
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Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by vatueil on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:54PM
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That's a problem with PayPal, not Gmail. You can't register "myemail" if someone else has already registered "my.email", so PayPal must not have verified the address (unless you accidentally clicked the verification link yourself).
There was an article posted recently that complained about how Netflix lets people create multiple accounts using dot variations of the same Gmail address, and plenty of people pointed out how it made no sense to blame Gmail for Netflix failing to verify email addresses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781959
Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by kome on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:42PM
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Well, it's Google that behaves in non-standard way. Let's say that the user verified the email by mistake: the error and misunderstanding is created by google nonstandard particles, not PayPal.
Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by vatueil on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:14AM
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Not at all. Imagine if "myemail" and "my.email" were different accounts: that would result in much more confusion and mis-addressed emails.
It's not as if simply making a typo and entering the wrong email address doesn't happen, either.
Also the relevant standards leave it up to the email host how to handle dots, so it's not even non-standard.