GMail: feature not bug

7 Nov 2005

Google Mail reassures me that someone's only been trying to guess an email address and failed to guess correctly. There aren't two accounts with only full stops as differences.

Posted by Rob Buckley on Monday, November 7, 2005 at 10:41 AM | 2 TrackBacks

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Google is unreliable from Rob Buckley's IT blog on November 17, 2005 11:07 AM

I'd noticed Google Maps didn't work quite right; GMail has had issues; and Google Analytics isn't impressing me so far. But it's not just me: someone else associates Google with unreliability. Maybe the word will spread.... Read More

GMail feature was a bug after all from The Hardware is Not Enough on January 23, 2006 4:52 PM

Ars Technica reports that GMail's full-stop/period system has bugs after all. You may recall I pointed this out ages ago, complained to Google about it, and was told that someone was merely guessing my email address and it was... Read More

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