Suresh’s Random Ramblog

GMail seems to have a bug/feature. If you have an email address abc.xyz@gmail.com, email sent to abcxyz@gmail.com will be sent to your inbox. the converse is also true, a.b.c.x.y.z@gmail.com does the same thing! The Gmail served ignores any full stops (periods) in the middle!

Contrary to earlier reports, Gmail does not allow the registration of more that one variant (i.e. abc.xyz@gmail.com and abcxyz@gmail.com). Whatever is registered first is the only permitted version.

While I can’t think of any inmmedeate use of this feature, I’m sure someone will think of one.

. . . so starts Guy Kawasaki in a blog post of his titled Hindsights and continues with nine other points. It’s a Commencement address he’s given several times but it’s really worth a read. It reminds me of Steve Job’s Commecement address at Stanford - not surprising considering that Guy was part of the original team that created the Macintosh. His entire blog contains a lot of interesting posts. Of particular intrest are his suggestions on Venture Capital funding (Guy heads a VC comapny). I found it particularly interesting - last year Raghu & I were unsuccessful in getting VC funding for our company. More on that in a later post.