Well, I just looked at the blog log. This is post number 1,003. A Thousand postings. And here is the old issue coming up again. This time from a church of all things. So here's the note I sent to the pastor of the church who emailed me. Dear Pastor XXXX ; Please, could you contact the Cole Cooper who is your in the parish? He has given you the address of cole.cooper@gmail.com for his email address - which is my address, the story of it is below: A Googley e-mail issue Sending to colecoop@gmail.com - cole.cooper@ gmail.com and colecooper@gmail.com will all come to my address. O nce upon a time - October 6, 2004, to be exact - I was one of the first users of Google email beta after getting an invite for the Beta. At the time - I had a Hotmail address for Obandrinker@hotmail.com, plus a Shaw @ home address. So after a few minutes in the old system, I ended up with my name in Gmail as cole.cooper...