[geeks] favorite im client?

velociraptor velociraptor at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 19:28:34 CST 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Christoffer Heggem <fu3.org at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Except that with gmail, l.usr at gmail.com, lu.sr at gmail.com,
>> lus.r at gmail.com and finally, lusr at gmail.com are the same (dynamic)
>> adresses, treated and linked to the same account; you'll get your mail
>> on either one.
>
> Yes and no. It is odd to say the least.
>
> I am jonathan.katz at gmail.com ... but once in a while (about 6 times a
> year) I get e-mail for jonathankatz at gmail.com (which is not me.)
>
> I don't know how they do or don't do account mapping, but if there are
> ones that are close with a '.' in them, beware.

Interesting.  The accounts I have with "." are sufficiently oddball,
that I've never
seen any email "cross-talk".

Sounds like a regex failure to me...

=Nadine=



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