Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by boring_twenties on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:48PM (#24307809)

Unsubscribe, man, I'm jealous.

Some dude 2,000 miles away from me has bought a Lexus and now I get regular emails about the status of his vehicle, receipts for all work done to it, and reminders of all maintenance not done to it. For a year and counting.

Each email helpfully includes instructions for unsubscribing: First, you log into the Lexus app...

I finally got fed up with it and reported them to abuse@.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by williamscales on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:55PM (#24308656)

Well, since you have the email, you can log in to the Lexus app. Then you could turn off the notifications.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by boring_twenties on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:01PM (#24308718)

I'm not sure about this but wouldn't that be a felony?

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by treeman79 on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:10PM (#24308799)

Yes.

99.9% chance no one would care. But people do freak out over this stuff.

Knew one guy that saw that a Bank got hacked on the news. Did an nslookup or similar to check the banks site.

He was arrested the next day and expelled from college for hacking the bank.

Eventually all got cleared up, but screwed up a year of his life

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by dtparr on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:34PM (#24309037)

He got expelled for running a DNS query?

Do you mean nmap?

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by treeman79 on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:56PM (#24309258)

Maybe. Was awhile ago

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by boring_twenties on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:15PM (#24313076)

Yeah, I'd rather not take a 0.1% chance of losing my rights for life over some spam email.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by bjohnson225 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:13PM (#24411874)

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by laurent92 on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:26PM (#24310163)

Can you claim you thought it was your account? Then, to demonstrate you knew it wasn’t yours, they’d have to collect various proof, and this demonstration being erratic and risky, they’d probably not attempt a trial.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by boring_twenties on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:19PM (#24313103)

I can probably claim whatever I want, but given I've never even looked at a Lexus dealership in my life, I doubt I could pull it off.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by williamscales on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:11AM (#24332256)

I'm not sure either, but couldn't you argue that it _is_ your Lexus account? It has _your_ email on it after all. That is the single important identifier attached to the account. The other stuff doesn't matter.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by rorykoehler on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:20PM (#24308915)

Just create a filter to auto delete them

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by boring_twenties on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:21PM (#24313112)

Perfectly reasonable solution but somehow just unsatisfying.

In the old days, when I ran my own mail server, I used to enjoy rejecting them with custom SMTP 550 messages.

Now I can't do that so I hard to resort to bothering the poor folks at abuse@.

In my defense, they have emailed me from 3 or so different domains/services, so I've had to set up a filter more than once.

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