This is Interesting

Apparently there is another Michael Laccetti in the world - seems he lives in the US and went to UAlbany. I can still claim to be somewhat unique as Michael is my anglicized name, but still. The interesting part is that it would appear that he is donates money to UAlbany.

How do I know this? Well, this is where the fun comes in - Google is screwing up pretty hard. You see, I have michael.laccetti -at- gmail.com, and it would seem that my counterpart has michaellaccetti -at- gmail.com. Google is busy sending me his e-mail.

I actually thought it was spam, until I realized it was thinking me for a donation, not asking for one. I looked at the message headers, and yup, it is actually coming from the right place. That means that Google cannot figure out that an e-mail with a period goes to me, and without goes to him.

Seems to be a pretty big problem entirely a feature.

Edit:
As it has been pointed out (some times more politely than others - I don’t quite understand why people miss out on being polite, costs nothing), this isn’t actually Google’s fault.  Their MTA actually does this on purpose.  Yip yay Google.  Just means that whomever donated to UAlbany forgot their e-mail address.