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pclarktoday at 2:52 AM1 replyview on HN

I have this same issue! But I can log in with or without dots… but it’s like someone else thinks their email is my email without the dots. I can’t really figure out what is happening. The volume is way too high for it to be spam though.


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peststoday at 4:11 AM

It would be just he uses a similar email, say last+first@gmail and gives it out incorrectly at times. Or people assume it is his. My friend has a first+last@gmail and I constantly confuse the order (or was it last+first? idk), a decade later. So you two are just seeing a subset of incorrectly addressed email, imo.

I remember a decade+ ago when this was discovered as some issue and caused a bunch of drama in the blogosphere.