Gmail should restrict to one word names?

Should usernames in Gmail be limited to one word?

[GrantNZ]

Should Google allow others the ability to create an email address similar to your own?

I have [e-mail] and I just tested [e-mail] and yes it will allow me to create this one, but should it?

The answer is NO, I reckon, because of major possible fraud consquences.

Tighten up the show Google, please!

[edited by: GrantNZ at 10:40 am (utc) on July 10, 2006]

[Brett_Tabke]

There is no way to stop it at all...

[EvilSquash]

Like the previous post states, there really isn't a way to prevent this. Someone (or hundreds of people for that matter) would have to be mindlessly trolling through different usernames. And even then, how would one know who was the real person or not? How would they know what is fraudulent and what is not?

[NevF]

Did you hear the story of when someone sends a message to first.last@gmailcom, it also sends to [e-mail].

GMail simply doesn't recognize the dot at all in its systems....