Yubico sent marketing email to address submitted for product replacement

Re:Yubico sent marketing email to address submitted for prod... by bitexploder on Sunday May 13, 2018 @05:04PM (#17061044)

I have a very common [email protected] (I wonder who has that literal address? Poor person.). The things I have gotten by accident are amazing. Highly sensitive loan applications, retirement accounts, travel documents, even a thread for a consultant doing highly sensitive plant improvements to a GM plant complete with access to gigs of plant info docs, process management and other proprietary information (vehicle design things). I have no idea, but these guys should be glad I an a benevolent entity :)

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Re:Yubico sent marketing email to address submitted for prod... by AdmiralAsshat on Sunday May 13, 2018 @08:00PM (#17061738)

I'm perplexed as to how you even got [email protected], because I'm pretty sure Gmail disregards the dot and will send anything with your address to [email protected][0].

That's actually the likely source of the confusion, as my (example) email might be [email protected] while the serial offender is likely [email protected] (based on the salutation in the message).

[0]http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-dot-in-your-gmail-add...

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Re:Yubico sent marketing email to address submitted for prod... by bitexploder on Sunday May 13, 2018 @11:56PM (#17062561)

Well, yeah, it is technically just [email protected], I am just used to the dot :)

So, any combination of dots in there works. I have just had it since the Gmail beta. And Insert both with and without the dot as mistaken deliveries.

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