[cylentwolf]

This has only recently been a problem for me. There is a nice gentleman with my same name who picked up the gmail address without the dot. He lives in Arizona. Has a library membership. Plays in a softball league. I am not sure how much of my email he gets. I haven't set up a filter yet but I will eventually. I like seeing what my doppelganger is up to some times.

[URSpider94]

No, he did not "pick up" that address. Google won't issue a second address that matches the concatenation of the characters without dots. So, if I have [e-mail], Google will not issue anyone else johnsmith@, j.ohnsmith@, [e-mail] or any other combination to another user.

What does often happen is that people FORGET what their actual email address is when they hand it out to other people or write it down on forms. Or their friends or family mis-remember it. Your doppleganger may have actually been issued the address johnny.smith, or smith.johnny, but just forgets.