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Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account

From David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid>
Newsgroups uk.telecom.broadband
Subject Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account
Date 2026-09-08 18:27 +0100
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On 08/09/2026 15:31, Woody wrote:
> My wife is trying to open a gmail account but keeps getting refused.
> She should have an account firstname.surname@gmail.com but Gmail is 
> unable to find such, so she tried to open a new account. Filled in the 
> necessary and when it came to email address she was offered two 
> (unsuitable) addresses and the option of choosing her own. She entered 
> firstname.surname@gmail.com and was immediately told that this username 
> is already in use.
> How can one end of gmail be unable to find an address and at the same 
> time refuse to create the identical address as it was already in use?
> 
> Help?

"Recently" or perhaps "within living memory" gmail altered the rules 
about which e-mail addresses it considers "the same". So if her original 
address was "firstnamesurname" without the "." you can't create 
"firstname.surname" but it won't let you log in with the name with the ".".

If was used and is now deleted that will also be blocked

Dave

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SOT: Problems creating gmail account Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2026-09-08 15:31 +0100
  Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-09-08 15:38 +0100
    Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-09-08 16:53 +0100
    Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2026-09-08 19:36 +0100
      Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-09-08 19:45 +0100
        Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2026-09-08 20:11 +0100
          Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-09-08 20:49 +0100
          Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-09-08 20:56 +0100
      Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-09-08 21:19 +0100
        Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-09-08 22:20 +0100
          Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Mark Carver <mark@invalid.com> - 2026-09-19 19:50 +0100
      Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-09-08 22:11 +0100
      Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-09-09 08:40 +0100
  Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-09-08 18:27 +0100
    Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2026-09-09 07:56 +0100
      Re: SOT: Problems creating gmail account Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-09-09 10:32 +0100

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