{"id":177,"date":"2008-06-15T12:10:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-12-02T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T01:42:20","slug":"thanks-gmail-for-giving-me-more-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2008\/06\/thanks-gmail-for-giving-me-more-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Gmail for giving me more spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;ctx=mail&amp;answer=10313#\">Google has decided<\/a> that if someone sends an email to a Gmail address that is the same as yours, except for a period or few, it was meant for you; and they relay it to your mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if I have an address cilias@gmail.com (which <strong>I do not<\/strong>), and someone sends a message to c.ilias@gmail.com (or cil.ias or cili.as or ci.lias or cilia.s or c.i.l.i.a.s, etc.), and none of that Gmail address does not exist, the message will arrive in my cilias@gmail.com account.<\/p>\n<p>All this does is increase my spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has decided that if someone sends an email to a Gmail address that is the same as yours, except for a period or few, it was meant for you; and they relay it to your mailbox. In other words,&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2008\/06\/thanks-gmail-for-giving-me-more-spam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}