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Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue
From: Bacon Zombie <baconzombie () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:20:56 +0200
This probably also effected German users. On Sep 30, 2014 6:32 PM, "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com> wrote:
Related oddness: if you're British and a GMail user, you either got a gmail.com username before the lawsuit, or you got a googlemail.com between the lawsuit and the point when Google and the owner of the "gmail" trademark settled, or then you got a gmail.com again. Google chose to alias googlemail.com and gmail.com addresses so as to minimise the mess, but this doesn't stop people who have googlemail.com entering gmail.com (or vice versa) when they set up an account on www.somewebsi.te, because they are conditioned to use gmail.com/googlemail.com interchangeably, and then being baffled as to why firstname.lastname () googlemail com (or vice versa)/password1234 doesn't work, because googlemail==gmail and anyway my address is really firstname.lastname () gmail com (or googlemail) - look, I get email on it, it must be the right one :-) On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Jeff Woolsey <jlw () jlw com> wrote:On 09/29/14 10:06, Nicolai wrote:Most likely reason: gmail is so common that someone mistypes johnsmith () example com as johnsmith () gmail com, not paying attention towhatthey're doing. It happens.More likely, I think, is that newbies think that email addresses already exist for everyone on the planet at firstlast () gmail com, and they justgivethat when asked (maybe they think it's throwaway and never actuallyexpectto get any email there). I'm in the same boat. It doesn't bother meallthat much because gmail is not my primary mail service. I use it tostorebig stuff that's clogging the mail service I do pay for. In fact, itcan beentertaining, as I get usernames and passwords for sites that this guy signed up for. He's also a poker player and has recently tried toenroll atan art college. The latter I could reply to and explain that their prospective student is an idiot and should not be accepted, but that'swhatwill happen anyway if I don't say anything. -- Jeff Woolsey {woolsey,jlw}@{jlw,jxh}.com first.last@{gmail,jlw}.com Spum bad keming. Nature abhors a straight antenna, a clean lens, and unused storagecapacity."Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management "Card sorting, Joel." -me, re Solitaire
Current thread:
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue, (continued)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Karl Auer (Sep 28)
- Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Grant Taylor (Sep 28)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Fraizer (Sep 28)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Bacon Zombie (Sep 29)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Jay Ashworth (Sep 29)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Fraizer (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Levine (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Nicolai (Sep 29)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Philip (Sep 29)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Jeff Woolsey (Sep 29)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Alexander Harrowell (Sep 30)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Bacon Zombie (Sep 30)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue James Welcher (Sep 29)