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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by oh_sigh on Thursday October 10, 2019 @08:26AM (#21213618)
I've heard his email causes issues for tons of internal systems at Google because a lot are coded with the expectation of a minimum of 3 characters for the left part of the email. May just be urban legend though.
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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:04PM (#21216095)
Do "+" suffixes work for google.com addresses? Is [email protected] the same account?
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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by anticensor on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:36PM (#21217737)
Yes and no. Yes, they belong to the same employee; no, each google.com mailbox needs to be approved, they are not automatically redirected unlike regular GMail addresses.
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