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I have an extremely common first and last name and my email address is first.last@gmail.

I get my fair share of misaddressed mail but it doesn’t help that I share the same name as the CEO of a major hotel chain’s timeshare business so I’ve getting tons of complaints about that :/

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Your email address is actually firstlast@gmail.com.

GMail doesn't care about dots, so you could say your email address is f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com for all the good it does. Using the dot probably does more harm, as it makes people think it's a legit differentiator.

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