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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by teraku on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:10AM (#24363190)
"." is a ghost character for gmail.

firstname.lastname (at) gmail and firstnamelastname (at) gmail

are the same address.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by TuringNYC on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:52AM (#24364022)
Not quite as I learned, for connected services. If you registered originally as [email protected] and use [email protected] it works fine for mail. For Log-in-with-Google, it goes back to [email protected] and many websites treat that as a distinct account. Now you end up with two distinct accounts on the "same" gmail. Not great.
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