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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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