@Okech
As I had said earlier, Google apps DOES take into account the dots (presumably for this very reason). It is only the GMail accounts that ignore the dots.


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
@Dennis - when you do several iterations with email, then you will
know why this is not good for the life of email itself.

Say for example, am a mail admin for xyz.com & would like to sign up
for paid backup services from Google on the same, and internally, I
have these addresses which I would like to do some address rewriting
to xyz.com which is paid hosted by google, what do I do? -

This is just 1 example, and in my every life with email (last 10 years
or so) I encounter these scenarios day in day out, and while at one
iteration, I stumbled on this. The fact that I can chose another
provider is not out of question, but knowing that someone is breaking
email is not so nice!

./Ok3ch

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now this is the point where techies miss the point. See, Gmail is a popular
> email system, and they serve masses who have no idea about the differences
> between jo.edoe@gmail.com , joe.doe@gmail.com and joedoe@gmail.com. The
> confusion arising from the use of the three would be far more complex to
> handle than the techies angered by the lack of use of the standard.
> In a company, it can be honoured, for a global provider , it is better to
> disregard it.
>
> Also most firms hose to ignore the use of a + in email addresses while
> Google honours it .
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