> I have multiple family members who have healthy memory, but can't accurately remember their email …
> I have multiple family members who have healthy memory, but can't accurately remember their email address everytime: the localpart, the domain, the syntax, everything. I got Gmail early enough that I have (my first name) dot (my last name) at gmail dot com. About twenty years ago, I started getting strange emails. At first I thought they were spam, because they were addressed to me by name but I had never joined those sites. Eventually I figured out that they were addressed to (my first name) (my last name) at gmail dot com. Which Gmail treats as the same address as the one with a dot in between. Since I had never ever given out a version of my email address without a dot in the middle, I eventually figured out that these emails were meant for someone else who shared the same first and last name as me. …
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