Less is better, just tell your friends stop typing the dots when sending emails to your Gmail account, if you have have a . in your email address. Or, you can fool your friends, add dots between every single characters(y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com), and you can still get your mail. Why? This is because Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within a username.

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