[GTALUG] Old and New Habits...

Alvin Starr alvin at netvel.net
Sun Aug 11 22:29:18 EDT 2024


On 2024-08-11 17:19, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 07:05:16AM -0500, CAREY SCHUG via talk wrote:
>> wow, I never knew that punctuation was ignored, so the period in one of my first email address is superfluous...  Thanks for learning something today (well, yesterday)
> It is up to the receiving system to decide if punctuation matters to it.
> To gmail it does not.
>
Just tested google mail since I have a google account with a clients domain.
Not gmail technically.

Anyway. alvin.starr at domain.com works but alvinstarr at domain.com does not.
but may gmail account will take alvinthing at gmail.com and 
alvinthing. at gmail.com


So it appears that punctuation counts some times.

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