ploum on Nostr: When GMail launched, I had invites and created my own firstname.lastname@gmail.com. I ...

When GMail launched, I had invites and created my own firstname.lastname@gmail.com.

I didn’t use much but I would receive lot of emails from people sharing my name. I even received passwords reset.

I thought that those people were dumb for not entering their real email into the forms.

Turn out it was not their fault but a GMail well-known bug that was never acknowledged by Google.

gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/08/11.1 (this is a #geminiprotocol link )

Short: leave GMail!