On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 18:19, One Murithi <o0murithi@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

Now this makes some sense to me. I think Google strips off everything before the dot and uses the remaining part of the prefix.

I have always received e-mails addressed to *.odhiambo@gmail.com and always wondered.

Are you certain? I think they only strip off the . which I think is acceptable - it is factored in when checking for available names.

I have rcvd xyz.odhiambo@gmail.com which makes me think they strip all chars upto the first dot.

Try sending mail to anything.odhiambo@gmail.com and test this out. Perhaps I am wron 

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