Fuzzy GMail addresses

[texas critter]

This is sooo cool!

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2004_06_26_index.html#108825308795611349

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Fuzzy Addresses

You might have a Gmail address like the following one:

* firstname...@gmail.com

In that case, all of the following email addresses will also work for you:

* firstnam...@gmail.com
* Firstnam...@gmail.com
* f.irstnam...@gmail.com

You get the idea – dots don't matter, neither does case. Gmail is
fuzzy enough to allow people to misspell your address.
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texas critter

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[Charles Mims]

Won't that just facilitate the spammers who take and run variations of
a them before a popular domain to send their junk?

Charles

[David W. Quinn]

I think this is awesome. That way if somebody comes along with
davidquinn and I'm david.quinn, they don't get my mail and vice versa.

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Thanks,
David W. Quinn

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[texas critter]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:02:13 -0400, Charles Mims <csm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> Won't that just facilitate the spammers who take and run variations of
> a them before a popular domain to send their junk?

I don't see how - if they send me spam to texascritter, texas.critter
and tex.ascritter, it's still spam and all three emails would get put
in the spam folder (or if not, then I'd just select all three and mark
them as spam).

One spam or 40 kazillion, I'm still not reading it or buying anything.

[Ann P. Barry]

I tried this, sending to several variants of the string before the
'@', and haven't received any of them after 90 minutes or so. (I did
send them from my regular ISP account.)

Has it worked for you, TC, or anyone else who doesn't have an
'x...@gmail.com' account name to start with?

--Kate

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:55:58 -0500, texas critter
<texasc...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Mark G]

is it just us, but when a friend (with the blah...@gmail.com
address) and I tried, it just didn't work.

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University of the Philippines

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[texas critter]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:57:43 -0400, Ann P. Barry <apb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tried this, sending to several variants of the string before the
> '@', and haven't received any of them after 90 minutes or so. (I did
> send them from my regular ISP account.)
>
> Has it worked for you, TC, or anyone else who doesn't have an
> 'x...@gmail.com' account name to start with?

Yes, I tried it on this address, it's texascritter and I sent to
texas.critter and it got thru fine and I have another gmail address,
alice.ttlg and I sent to alicettlg and it also got thru just fine.

What variations did you try? You do have to get apbarry correctly,
but you can a dot anywhere in there, like ap.barry or a.pbarry or
apb.arry should all get to you.

[Sharon Brogan]

I tried it with a friend, not sent from my gmail account but from
another account -- tried without the dot, lower-case; without the dot,
upper-case -- both worked instantly.

--
Sharon Brogan
http://www.sbpoet.com

[Ann P. Barry]

<blush> Yes, it would have helped if I'd started off with the correct
string. I sent several variants at once, and received only one, but
I'll bet that has to do with GMail's only saving one copy.
Thanks anyway!

[Mark G]

ah it worked. When I first read this at blog outer i thought he meant
you can log-on to gmail using the stated variations.

great feature.

[Apostol Apostolov]

But it's going to eat your space in no time. Imagine how many
variations of your webmail name can be done. Now imagine that much spam
messages. Now imagine few dozen people doing that on daily manner. It's
NOT going to be pretty...