Not true. I have a "john.doe@gmail.com" account that is quite old and in the past year someone created the same account without the dot (johndoe@gmail.com), or at least started using it in the past year. I get email from one of their senders, or a copy I presume, to this day!
Thanks! Hard to believe they would let this go. The email I receive that is intended for someone else is not something I would want others to see if I were them.
I indicated that in the post. However any existing account combination like this will route mail to both accounts presumably. I can certainly say that email intended for an account without the '.' will route to the account with the '.'
Started out on the TI99-4A, yes Texas Instruments made computers back in the early 80s. Learned Basic and then Extended Basic. TV for a monitor, cassette deck for data storage. First program was probably something like: