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Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by S_A_P on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:22PM (#21072242)
Same here I got my gmail in 2002 and used [email protected]. There was someone who signed up as [email protected] which as you may know gmail doesn’t require a “.”. There is another guy who uses [email protected] and consistently forgets to use that permutation.
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Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by jedberg on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @03:28PM (#21074381)
> Same here I got my gmail in 2002

Pretty impressive given that it launched in 2004.

> and used [email protected]. There was someone who signed up as [email protected]

That's not possible. Gmail won't let you sign up for an already in use email and they strip the dots before they check.

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Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by JetSpiegel on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @06:46PM (#21076426)
Maybe that wasn't implemented in 2002.
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Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by londons_explore on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:52PM (#21073252)
if you have [email protected], then someone else cannot sign up as [email protected]. Gmail addresses are required to be unique after all dots are removed.
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