This probably also effected German users. On Sep 30, 2014 6:32 PM, "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com> wrote:
Related oddness: if you're British and a GMail user, you either got a gmail.com username before the lawsuit, or you got a googlemail.com between the lawsuit and the point when Google and the owner of the "gmail" trademark settled, or then you got a gmail.com again.
Google chose to alias googlemail.com and gmail.com addresses so as to minimise the mess, but this doesn't stop people who have googlemail.com entering gmail.com (or vice versa) when they set up an account on www.somewebsi.te, because they are conditioned to use gmail.com/googlemail.com interchangeably, and then being baffled as to why firstname.lastname@googlemail.com (or vice versa)/password1234 doesn't work, because googlemail==gmail and anyway my address is really firstname.lastname@gmail.com (or googlemail) - look, I get email on it, it must be the right one :-)
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Jeff Woolsey <jlw@jlw.com> wrote:
On 09/29/14 10:06, Nicolai wrote:
Most likely reason: gmail is so common that someone mistypes johnsmith@example.com as johnsmith@gmail.com, not paying attention to
what
they're doing. It happens.
More likely, I think, is that newbies think that email addresses already exist for everyone on the planet at firstlast@gmail.com, and they just give that when asked (maybe they think it's throwaway and never actually expect to get any email there). I'm in the same boat. It doesn't bother me all that much because gmail is not my primary mail service. I use it to store big stuff that's clogging the mail service I do pay for. In fact, it can be entertaining, as I get usernames and passwords for sites that this guy signed up for. He's also a poker player and has recently tried to enroll at an art college. The latter I could reply to and explain that their prospective student is an idiot and should not be accepted, but that's what will happen anyway if I don't say anything.
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