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Re: Group not showing up in my groups list?

Ellen
 

"It would be a far worse error to consider them the same with a domain
that doesn't. Then you'd have two or more users who can't separate their
accounts."

And this is a battle I'm having with Apple. Some person just lately is using mizelly@... and purchases a lot from Apple. My email addy is miz.elly@... and I've had it for years... and have never purchased anything at Apple.
When Apple tries to contact this person, the mail comes to me. Fortunately Apple is being quite understanding when I explained about that period. But it makes me wonder just where some mail may end up.
I considered changing the addy and most likely will once this mess is cleared up.
Ellen

-----Original Message-----
From: Shal Farley
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 9:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Group not showing up in my groups list?

Gerald,

I always understood that dots and some other punctuation are ignored
in email addresses.
No.

So long as it is syntactically correct the email standard leaves the
semantic interpretation of the user name part entirely up to the
receiving domain.

To get it completely correct Groups.io would need a table of exceptions
by domain to know which characters to ignore or otherwise treat specially.

For example, some mail services (IIRC Gmail) allowed the use of a plus
sign in an email address to ignore the plus sign and all following
characters. This was touted as a cheap way to get disposable email
addresses for the purpose of giving different vendors different
addresses so as to know which vendor sold you address.

That usage I think inspired Groups.io's use of plus as a command
lead-in. As opposed to Y!Groups use of hyphen.

If GIO is considering them different, I guess that could be considered
a bug.
It would be a far worse error to consider them the same with a domain
that doesn't. Then you'd have two or more users who can't separate their
accounts.

Shal


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