tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post6467506175724811528..comments2010-03-08T14:01:00.058+11:00Gary Myershttps://profiles.google.com/116132019768637593422noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post-87381981587479601512010-03-08T14:01:00.050+11:002010-03-08T14:01:00.050+11:00Delayed response, sorry.<br /><br />I&#39;ve heard a lot of spam comes from GMail...but they do a good job of keeping the spam out of my inbox so I&#39;ve never noticed it myself. I haven&#39;t hung around usenet for years either.<br /><br />The other peculiarity of gmail is that you can add in full stops but they get ignored, so &quot;some.one&quot; would go to the same email box as &quot;someone&quot; or even &quot;so.me.one&quot;.Gary Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08828771074492585943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post-82313728989889120192010-02-24T10:29:36.556+11:002010-02-24T10:29:36.556+11:00How funny, I rate gmail accounts as lowly because of the amount of spam they generate on oracle usenet groups.<br /><br />There are bizarro namespace collisions - I often post on blogs as the blogname at my domain, and had some strange things happen as some software decided I must be the owner!<br /><br />One of my netadmins at work wound up with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242423/" rel="nofollow">carlost</a>. <br /><br />The fact my wife uses a different last name professionally than personally leads to endless entertainment. <br /><br />I&#39;ve gotten email for other people because my ISP was too smart to not do partial matches. ie, I&#39;m xyz@cox.net, someone else is xyz-abc@cox.net, they give up xyz-abc, I get their mail. D&#39;Oh! I&#39;m wondering if your wife has the same issue, since what are the chances ISP&#39;s use the same stupid mail processing scripts.<br /><br />Double kudos for Prisoner reference!<br /><br />word: detram<br />word: pultrJoel Garryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13325061229393838224noreply@blogger.com