If they forgot a dot and received a "no such mailbox", they'd check and fix it.
Some data, sans opinion: I checked my trash this morning after clearing it out. Total messages in trash: 47. Trashed messages linked to the "fredflintstone" variant: 40, all of them spam. The other 7 are all real messages I've just deleted after reading, none of them are spam.
> If they forgot a dot and received a "no such mailbox", they'd check and fix it.
why would they? do you think another person would not register
fredflintstone@gmail
and another user could register
fred.flint.stone
and another user
fred.flints.tone
then you have lots of people using email addresses that are the same if the end user excludes the easily forgettable punctuation marks.
Your anecdote about one person who keeps giving your email address out does not mean that Googles dot policy is bad.
I can't expand any further on what I've already said so I'm going to leave the discussion
Some data, sans opinion: I checked my trash this morning after clearing it out. Total messages in trash: 47. Trashed messages linked to the "fredflintstone" variant: 40, all of them spam. The other 7 are all real messages I've just deleted after reading, none of them are spam.