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  • Re: xkcd: *@gmail.com

    From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Thu Aug 31 12:52:32 2023
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    On 8/31/2023 12:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 8/31/2023 2:38 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    xkcd: *@gmail.com
        https://xkcd.com/2822/

    Oh yes, that would be an email apocalypse.

    Explained at:
        https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2822:_*@gmail.com

    Lynn

    There are 1.8 BILLION gmail addresses, really ?

    They are the go-to email service for bogus edresses for spam and one
    time signups.

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    dirty old man.

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Thu Aug 31 14:40:46 2023
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    On 8/31/2023 2:38 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    xkcd: *@gmail.com
       https://xkcd.com/2822/

    Oh yes, that would be an email apocalypse.

    Explained at:
       https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2822:_*@gmail.com

    Lynn

    There are 1.8 BILLION gmail addresses, really ?

    Lynn

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 31 14:38:15 2023
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    xkcd: *@gmail.com
    https://xkcd.com/2822/

    Oh yes, that would be an email apocalypse.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2822:_*@gmail.com

    Lynn

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  • From kaiser@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 1 00:47:37 2023
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    On 31 Aug 2023 at 16:52:32 GMT-3, "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

    On 8/31/2023 12:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 8/31/2023 2:38 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    xkcd: *@gmail.com
    https://xkcd.com/2822/

    Oh yes, that would be an email apocalypse.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2822:_*@gmail.com

    Lynn

    There are 1.8 BILLION gmail addresses, really ?

    They are the go-to email service for bogus edresses for spam and one
    time signups.

    Doesn't the email RFC say *@domain.com should be supported? Not that anyone actually uses the whole RFC lol

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  • From Gary R. Schmidt@21:1/5 to kaiser on Fri Sep 1 11:53:00 2023
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    On 01/09/2023 10:47, kaiser wrote:
    On 31 Aug 2023 at 16:52:32 GMT-3, "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

    On 8/31/2023 12:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 8/31/2023 2:38 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    xkcd: *@gmail.com
    https://xkcd.com/2822/

    Oh yes, that would be an email apocalypse.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2822:_*@gmail.com

    Lynn

    There are 1.8 BILLION gmail addresses, really ?

    They are the go-to email service for bogus edresses for spam and one
    time signups.

    Doesn't the email RFC say *@domain.com should be supported? Not that anyone actually uses the whole RFC lol

    Yes, but that's on the "accept-for-forwarding" part of things.

    If you have it set up to accept "*@a.b.c" and forward that to
    "bill@x.y.z" then e-mail "bob@a.b.c" and "carol@a.b.c" will both end up
    in "bill@x.y.z"'s mailbox.

    Cheers,
    Gary B-)

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