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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by SamBam on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:35PM (#24309647)
Happens all the time to me. Some of my fellow [first-initial][last-names] are "smart" people -- a professor and a judge, among others -- and I know that they are putting in their own email wrong.

I know this because I'm frequently getting mail from automated systems for something they filled out.

I mean, I know there's an xkcd about this, but seriously? How do you mistype your own email address so often? In both cases, their real addresses are [first-name][last-name].

Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by manmademagic on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:21PM (#24311544)
Probably due to their workplaces using different schemes

e.g. My personal is [firstname].[lastname] and work is [firstinitial][lastname]

If I didn’t use macros I’m sure I’d eventually mix them up too.