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by znpy 1387 days ago
Dots are never ignored before the @, and also aren’t ignored after it, for that matter.

I guess this is another falsehood people believe about emails.

> Nobody else can register an email that is the same as yours but without a dot.

It used to be possible, then google decided to stop allowing that (guess why?)

And by the way, that’s an arbitrary decision.

I have run mail servers and it’s just and cam tell you… it’s an arbitrary decision.