Gmail always ignored .. It's more likely that people don't understand how email and/or names work and just assume their Sean Conner is the only Sean Conner that obviously has the email address seanconner@gmail.com.
No, sean.conner used to be treated as a distinct account from seanconner, but then that behaviour changed to ignoring the dots, unless the dotted and non-dotted addresses had already been created as separate accounts before the change.
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ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 2 pts · 12d
Gmail always ignored
.. It's more likely that people don't understand how email and/or names work and just assume their Sean Conner is the only Sean Conner that obviously has the email address seanconner@gmail.com.lemmyng@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 12d
No,
sean.connerused to be treated as a distinct account fromseanconner, but then that behaviour changed to ignoring the dots, unless the dotted and non-dotted addresses had already been created as separate accounts before the change.ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 2 pts · 12d
In July 2004 they already ignored the dots https://itsmygmail.blogspot.com/2004/07/gmail-address-variations.html
Since Gmail came out in April 2004, if it wasn't there since the very beginning it was there since gmail had only a metaphorical handful of users.