Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
by BrandoElFollito on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:33PM
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You will often see people in France who have a @internet.provider address.
The law here is that once you have it, you can keep it when changing providers at no cost, they have to make it available to you.
I always found it weird, especially when you have so much choice of provider-free ones (less in France than in other countries but still)
Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
by HenryBemis on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:28PM
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I (and I believe most of us) never use the email address that the ISPs provide, just so we can have our own. Who would ever want to use the [email protected]???
Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
by BrandoElFollito on Sunday August 30, 2020 @05:17AM
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I do not understand what "have your own" means. I HAVE mine, the internet box gave it to me and it works.
^^^ this is the reality of the world , with people for whom edge = internet.
Of course you can get your domain and self-host your MTA (I am sure that this is what you are doing because who would ever want to be dependent on some provider, seriously). You are in the 10^-(whatever)% of the population that understand these words - and that's the reason people have [email protected] as the address.
In understanding what went wrong here, it's worth noting that historically it was more common to have your email service provided by your ISP. If you moved to a house that wasn't served by the same ISP, your new ISP provided email bundled with the rest of the service at no extra charge, and you didn't want to keep paying to retain your old email, there were circumstances under which a move of house might have motivated a change of email.
Of course this was never relevant to gmail, but it might have been a part of the reason for the confusion. Or it might very well not have.