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Gmail's fault-tolerant address design reflects the Robustness Principle (Postel's Law)—be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send—reducing email loss due to typos but introducing false-positive delivery problems.
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Gmail点号忽略机制为何导致邮件误送给同名用户
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