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What happened to the emails of people with periods in their names?
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Mar 26, 2016 23:09
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e: should've read the last page
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Mar 26, 2016 23:21
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Dr. Quarex posted:
This is because Google was wrong. the RFC for the acceptable ways to format an email address speciifcally says to ignore periods within an address, and treat them as the same address. AFAIR, Google added suppoer for + addressing at the same time.
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Mar 26, 2016 23:37
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I use the + a lot in hopes of figuring out where spam comes from. it always goes to my actual address. So they either strip it out or something else gives out my email.
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Mar 26, 2016 23:52
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Cojawfee posted:I use the + a lot in hopes of figuring out where spam comes from. it always goes to my actual address. So they either strip it out or something else gives out my email. Or the people who buy/snipe the email addresses strip out the "+" so you don't know where it comes from.
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Mar 27, 2016 01:05
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Cojawfee posted:What happened to the emails of people with periods in their names? I can tell you that some German dude's emails get sent to me at random because of my gmail address. That's my Gmail story.
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Mar 27, 2016 01:17
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Same, except a black guy in North Carolina.
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Mar 27, 2016 01:23
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For a while I kept getting plumbing invoices for some guy in Seattle. Freaked me out because it was cold out and my apartment complex was all "Let your faucets drip to prevent the pipes from freezing." I was driving somewhere and got an email with an invoice from a plumber and my paranoia got the best of me and assumed that I didn't run my faucets good enough and the building was destroyed with water damage and they sent me an invoice already.
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Mar 27, 2016 01:30
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stubblyhead posted:This game was pretty awesome, not that I ever made too much progress with it. EoRaptor posted:This is because Google was wrong. the RFC for the acceptable ways to format an email address speciifcally says to ignore periods within an address, and treat them as the same address. My favorite side effect of this was that I had to decide what to do with the Facebook page of the dude with my Firstname.Lastname since he could no longer access it. I had literally no way of contacting him and when I asked on his page if one of his friends could talk to him for me, they all defriended me. So I was like "O.K., fine" and just took it over.
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Mar 27, 2016 03:04
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I had some lady trying to order a football team-branded coffee mug from Dick's Sporting Goods and she kept putting in my gmail address over and over... I don't know if she bought the same mug 4 times or just tried to re-send the confirmation that many times. Eventually she gave up.
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Mar 27, 2016 03:23
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Dr. Quarex posted:Same. I actually went looking for a screenshot of Uncle Smoke since that was literally the only thing I remembered about the entire game, but then I saw those dudes and I was like OH MY GOD THE ALIEN AUCTION THING I WAS 5 I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON Remember the book that came with? I did a book report on it in second grade.
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Mar 27, 2016 04:49
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Dr. Quarex posted:Though as far as I can tell you can no longer find any proof that this is the case, GMail originally did differentiate e-mail addresses like Your.Name and YourName, even though now it just casually says "any number of periods in an e-mail address will reach the same person, obviously!" They always ignored .s in names - I got my gmail account when it was still invite only and this was true then. The reason you got a sudden uptick in email intended to go to idiots is because that's when the service opened up enough that all the idiots got a gmail account.
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Mar 28, 2016 00:34
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mng posted:I can tell you that some German dude's emails get sent to me at random because of my gmail address. Some woman with kids uses my email for everything, even after I internet detectived and called her at work telling her to stop, so whenever I get toys r us rewards in her name I go spend them on legos. Such is life.
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Mar 28, 2016 03:27
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I'm a member of the same-name Gmail club as well. It's been going on since 2011. I have to assume that the guy gets most of his e-mail just fine, otherwise why would he keep using my address?
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Mar 28, 2016 03:58
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Yeah I mean, Ookiimarukochan, I understand what you are saying, but I got an acknowledgement from support at one point that people "may" have been able to inadvertently create separate accounts with dots in them, but they claimed they never should have been able to receive e-mail separately from my account. Well, maybe that was true, but they sure gave out that address a lot before realizing nothing was working. Kind of like Reagan, I always wondered what in the world was going on on the other end, considering the number of accounts people have opened in dot variations of my e-mail address that I have had to shut down or otherwise reclaim.
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Mar 28, 2016 05:00
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reagan posted:I'm a member of the same-name Gmail club as well. It's been going on since 2011. I have to assume that the guy gets most of his e-mail just fine, otherwise why would he keep using my address? Yeah I mean if I didn't get the reminder email from the red cross about my appointment to donate blood, I wouldn't think much of it. But didn't he wonder why he never got that morbidly obese black albino chick's beaver shots?
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Mar 28, 2016 06:10
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The NRA and a car dealership keep emailing me thinking I'm my dead dad
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Mar 28, 2016 18:08
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stubblyhead posted:morbidly obese black albino chick's beaver shots? Some guys get all the luck...
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Mar 28, 2016 18:19
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Microsoft's Allegiance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(video_game)  drat that was fun. I know it still runs today but dam that I loved the vanilla experience. I used to spawn a slow rear end bomber at the beginning and moving thought sectors using the most indirect route and fartest away from the wrap gates to not be detected by scouts and warping at the ennemy base sector and blowing the HQ up. Glorious 2K space MMO hero right here boys!
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Mar 30, 2016 17:49
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ShiroTheSniper posted:Microsoft's Allegiance Thankyou! I remember when it came out my internet was poo poo and so was my computer. Might have to give it a go again.
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Mar 31, 2016 09:23
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Faxes mostly still exist due to privacy laws and confidentiality. Unlike email or other digital methods, there isn't really a way to intercept or hijack faxes and thus they are used for private communication of documents. There is no accountiblity with a fax. Sure, A fax machine says it received your transmission, but what fax machine? Did you dial the right number? Did the receiving fax have paper in it? Toner? Who knows? Fax should die, the sooner the better Bovril Delight posted:Rightfax is a god send, no more replacing toner! Rightfax can also eat my rear end. Biggest mistake I ever made in my career was making that thing work over VoIP. I wish I could travel back in time and kick my self in the balls for that one. Fabulousity posted:
Almost. X2 and Flex were pretty much consolidated in to V.90, and most (but not all) Flex and X2 modems were upgradable to it. V.90 was fairly popular all the way up until the point you discribed. V.92 was very late to the dial up game. It added slightly better compression for HTML content and better support for call waiting. But like you said, by then, most people didn't care because they were switching to broadband or already had V.90 which V.92 wasn't a big improvment on. Buttcoin purse posted:Any ISDN? woodch posted:Hah! No, but our office basement is jam packed with old-rear end telco equipment that includes a bunch of decommissioned ISDN modems. Fabulousity posted:ISDN is missing in action, but it did have a fun second or two in the sun back there somewhere. ISDN was never cost effective for home users, but I had it at my house when I was teenager. We couldn't get cable or DSL out there, so I was paying AT&T $100 a month for 200 channel hours of ISDN, and then $40 a month for my ISP. This is what happens when you are a massive nerd with a job and disposible income in the mid to late 90's. ISDN is still kind of used today. PRI voice circuits use ISDN signalling. They are just 23 B channels and 1 D instead of 2 B and 1 D. I doubt there are many orders for new ISDN service today, but I am sure something out there stil uses it. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
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Mar 31, 2016 20:07
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I'm tellin' ya. We had it tough back then.
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Norway went kind of all-in for ISDN for a few years in the 90s, so it wasn't a bad alternative up to DSL caught on - a couple of dollars extra per month, same minute price as modem dial-up, 64kbit instead of 56kbit, and you could use the phone while connected. (You could also bundle both B-channels for blazing 128kbit action and double the price).
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Mar 31, 2016 23:10
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I had ISDN when I lived in Sweden in around 2000 and it had per minute usage charges for use 7am to 7pm weekdays, then half price for other times. It was ridiculously expensive. Replaced it with DSL and it was so much faster for about a tenth of the cost of ISDN.
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Apr 1, 2016 00:20
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Computer viking posted:Norway went kind of all-in for ISDN for a few years in the 90s, so it wasn't a bad alternative up to DSL caught on - a couple of dollars extra per month, same minute price as modem dial-up, 64kbit instead of 56kbit, and you could use the phone while connected. (You could also bundle both B-channels for blazing 128kbit action and double the price). I guess a computer viking would know a lot about Internet service in Norway.
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Apr 1, 2016 00:29
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Unctuous Cretin posted:I also managed to get mysurname@gmail.com. Unfortunately, my name translates to "cheap" in a language of a people that values a good bargain. So for a while I was getting offers from cheap foreign mp3 sites and other shady business ventures to buy my email. Your last name is קַמצָן?
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Apr 1, 2016 01:24
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Mak0rz posted:I guess a computer viking would know a lot about Internet service in Norway. GutBomb posted:I had ISDN when I lived in Sweden in around 2000 and it had per minute usage charges for use 7am to 7pm weekdays, then half price for other times. It was ridiculously expensive. Replaced it with DSL and it was so much faster for about a tenth of the cost of ISDN.
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Apr 1, 2016 01:30
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I worked at a small ISP (500 users) that offered dual channel ISDN. The only person that ordered it was some CEO of a local manufacturing company. I almost had it installed at my house but then cable modems came along and I happened to live in the part of town where they were beta testing. I'm guessing that was '98 or '99.
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Apr 1, 2016 03:19
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Does anyone remember audiogalaxy? It was an mp3 search engine that also had a file-sharing component. Basically you would search on the website and tag what songs you wanted from which users, then it would send that info to your audiogalaxy client (which I used on a Linux shell account to download mp3s quickly during the day to the shell account and then would log on to and download them from the shell at night on the aforementioned half priced ISDN) The cool thing was you could find absolutely anything on audiogalaxy, no matter how obscure. If someone had ever shared a file on there it would remain in their search results forever. Then whenever they reconnect to the service anyone that had queued downloads of their shared stuff would start downloading. Sometimes you'd have to wait a few days but there was never anything I wasn't able to find. GutBomb has a new favorite as of 03:52 on Apr 1, 2016 |
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Apr 1, 2016 03:44
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GutBomb posted:Does anyone remember audiogalaxy? It was an mp3 search engine that also had a file-sharing component. Basically you would search on the website and tag what songs you wanted from which users, then it would send that info to your audiogalaxy client (which I used on a Linux shell account to download mp3s quickly during the day to the shell account and then would log on to and download them from the shell at night on the aforementioned half priced ISDN) I used the poo poo out of audiogalaxy, but I don't remember it being that great
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Apr 1, 2016 03:48
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Speaking of mp3s, remember when you could google "Index of:" followed by the name of the song you wanted, and more than likely you'd find somebody's music folder that included the desired song? IIRC Google got wise to that 5-ish years ago, maybe more.
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Apr 1, 2016 04:40
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Speaking of cable modems, back in 2001 my old roommates and I moved from an apartment near the University and an affluent neighborhood to a suburb a little farther out. They hadn't upgraded the cable network there yet, so we had to be downgraded to a hybrid cable modem. The downstream was all cable, but it had to utilize a landline for the upstream. Ping times were somewhere between dial-up and a regular cable modem. We also needed a set top box to switch between A and B channels to get access to all of the channels. Thankfully they upgrade everything after about six months.
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Apr 1, 2016 04:56
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Pham Nuwen posted:Speaking of mp3s, remember when you could google "Index of:" followed by the name of the song you wanted, and more than likely you'd find somebody's music folder that included the desired song? IIRC Google got wise to that 5-ish years ago, maybe more. It still works. I just tried looking for an album and found something uploaded on 29-Sep-2004.
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Apr 1, 2016 06:24
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Rambling Robot posted:It still works. I just tried looking for an album and found something uploaded on 29-Sep-2004. Yeah. It tends to be more that phishers caught on to the trend and starting making faux-Apache directory listings caked with ads and fake links, so you generally end up with 99% bullshit when it's easier to just use the pirate bay or something
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Apr 1, 2016 08:33
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GutBomb posted:Does anyone remember audiogalaxy? It was an mp3 search engine that also had a file-sharing component. Basically you would search on the website and tag what songs you wanted from which users, then it would send that info to your audiogalaxy client (which I used on a Linux shell account to download mp3s quickly during the day to the shell account and then would log on to and download them from the shell at night on the aforementioned half priced ISDN) The audiogalaxy satellite client was cool. I used it extensively until one of my University Lecturers introduced the class to 'Soulseek' which was mind blowing to me. There wasn't much I couldn't find on there. Fake edit: Holy crap it's still around! http://www.slsknet.org/news/node/680
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Apr 1, 2016 08:46
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Pham Nuwen posted:Speaking of mp3s, remember when you could google "Index of:" followed by the name of the song you wanted, and more than likely you'd find somebody's music folder that included the desired song? IIRC Google got wise to that 5-ish years ago, maybe more.
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Apr 1, 2016 11:32
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There's a reddit where people post the open directories they've found. I won't post the URL for this reddit dedicated to open directories since it is basically just  but it- uhh- shouldn't be too hard to find.
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Apr 1, 2016 13:15
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Humphreys posted:The audiogalaxy satellite client was cool. I used it extensively until one of my University Lecturers introduced the class to 'Soulseek' which was mind blowing to me. There wasn't much I couldn't find on there. Oh wow. I was using this in 2005 to download lots of obscure 80s metal albums from people in South America. I should try this again to see if it's still any good.
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Apr 1, 2016 13:16
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GutBomb posted:Does anyone remember audiogalaxy? I discovered some new band I liked, got in touch with them over audiogalaxy and they then used it to share some unreleased stuff with me.
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Apr 1, 2016 13:22
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Soulseek is still useful as balls to find really obscure stuff.
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Apr 1, 2016 18:14
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I was a huge fan of WinMX back in its day. Found a ton of rare 80s hard rock/hair metal with it. If I remember correctly, one of the developers got mad and launched a bunch of huge DDOS attacks on it and rendered it useless.
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Apr 1, 2016 20:34
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