[geeks] favorite im client?

[Phil Stracchino]

Mark Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:28 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> So they ignore dots in the local-part, then (as we've heard) give out
>> email addresses that differ only in dots in the local-part.
>>
>> Does this sound to anyone else like a recipe for disaster?
> 
> Not really. Given that they all route to the same mailbox you can't (one
> would hope) have 'fred.blogs' and 'fredblogs' assigned to different
> people's Google Accounts.

But other people on this list have already reported getting erroneous
mail for a.bc at gmail.com delivered to them at ab.c at gmail.com.  They may
be SUPPOSED to all route to the same mailbox, but if those reports are
correct, there are mailbox collisions.


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