Something strange happened today. I received an email to my Gmail (t d f)-address that was not intended to be sent to me.
What Google (t d f) did was it equated firstname.lastname@gmail.com with firstnamelastname@gmail.com. Whereas the latter is someone completley different.
Let’s hope they fix that.
[Update:] Google did respond to my complaint; the said that Google doesn’t make any difference whether you use a “.” for your ID. Which means firstname.lastname = firstnamelastname. The strange thing is, however, that there are now 2 people using the same email-address. There is something wrong with this.
My conclusion: do not use free email if you expect professional service!
[Update 2:]It seems as if Google’s Gmail (t d f) - ID-generating process causes puzzlement if there are similar email-addresses around. So there is no real security breach but a usability issue. Thus I conclude: still a decent free service with a great and unmatched user interface but the problems that free email brings along.
[Update 3:]
Found this today, a real (corrected) security breach in Gmail (t d f)
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