[richardw]

Same here (name.surname). Next Gmail account will be a guid because I get far too much junk. At one point I set up a Google group for my namesakes. If I recognise the context I forward it.

Wish I could turn off Gmail equating namesurname with name.surname. That's far more than 50% of it.

The lingerie pic was nice. Poor lady was very pleased I'd deleted it!

[ghkbrew]

If you exclusively use name.surname, you could set up a filter to catch anything sent to namesurname and automatically have it skip the inbox/put in a folder/deleted/whatever

[richardw]

Thanks! Just checked my filters and I have exactly that rule which I've turned on and off a couple times. I feel bad because I've had really important emails that people might have missed, e.g. an alert for a funeral of an old friend, or a hotel booking. Today was a flight in a Spitfire that someone had booked.

But upvoted for being helpful.