Everyone, please double-check your email address
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My firstlast is at outlook :D
Looks relatively professional, and no chance of duplicates, since I got it early on.
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@masonwheeler said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
By typoing it juuuuust right so that it ends up on my address rather than his.
I always wonder if I'll start getting stuff for my sister-in-law. Our first and middle names start with the same letters. I have
<a><b><last>@gmail
, she has<a><b><last>@yahoo
. So far, so good... And she hasn't said anything either... (I don't give out my gmail - I use<something>@<MyPersonalDomain>.com
, that might help...)
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I have firstname_lastname@yahoo.com It got so annoying to type that many characters (both names are 7 letters) that when I got gmail I changed it to 3 letter nickname, first letter of last name, and 4 meaningless numbers@gmail.com
I also own firstnamelastname.com
My husband's name is far more common both first and last. Plus is name is like Erik A Lastname and he gets mail occasionally to Erika Lastname.
I did not change my name when we got married and my husband goes by a nickname from his last name, like Smitty for Smith.
My grandmother always insisted on writing checks to me as Mrs. Smitty Smith. I was always like, who is that?
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@Karla
Psh, a 7 letter last name. So short, it's practically smaller than Trump's hands.Reeeeeeeal amazing people have 10 letter last names flexes ;)
Edit: Also, a last name that has a non-English etymolgy, and has several famous people with similar sounding English etymology last names, so I get misspelled last names on most of my unsolicited snail mail. And some from people who know me, too :p
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@djls45 said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I also have a friend who didn't need to change her name at all when she married. Her and her husband's families have the same last name.
Many years ago in college, I had a friend whose mother's name was originally Johnson, before she married a guy with a very uncommon name. When my friend told her mom she was getting married, her mom said something to the effect of, "I manage to give you an interesting last name, and you want to change it back to Johnson?!?"
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@izzion said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Karla
Psh, a 7 letter last name. So short, it's practically smaller than Trump's hands.Reeeeeeeal amazing people have 10 letter last names flexes ;)
Edit: Also, a last name that has a non-English etymolgy, and has several famous people with similar sounding English etymology last names, so I get misspelled last names on most of my unsolicited snail mail. And some from people who know me, too :p
LOL it was also a pain when filling out paper form (at doctor's offices etc).
Misspellings, mispronounciation, etc. I stopped correcting people for calling me the wrong name 15 years ago.
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@dcon said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I use <something>@<MyPersonalDomain>.com
This. With
<something>
being essentially any RFC-compliant local-part. It makes coming up with single-use addresses for registering on websites and stuff easy.
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@Karla said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@izzion said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Karla
Psh, a 7 letter last name. So short, it's practically smaller than Trump's hands.Reeeeeeeal amazing people have 10 letter last names flexes ;)
Edit: Also, a last name that has a non-English etymolgy, and has several famous people with similar sounding English etymology last names, so I get misspelled last names on most of my unsolicited snail mail. And some from people who know me, too :p
LOL it was also a pain when filling out paper form (at doctor's offices etc).
Misspellings, mispronounciation, etc. I stopped correcting people for calling me the wrong name 15 years ago.
Oh, man! My last name is only six letters, but it has a Germanic origin, and it seems like very few people can spell it correctly, much less pronounce it correctly. (It's not hard at all! Phonetically, it's only three sounds that occur commonly in English.)
And the nickname I use is very uncommon, but is quite similar to many other more common nicknames, so people usually try one of those if they've only heard it and not seen it written down. (I can think of only two other people with this name who are alive right now: one was named after me, and the other is a woman whom I don't know personally whose parents apparently didn't realize that it's a male name.)
It does make it really easy to identify telemarketers. :P
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@djls45 Fun fact: "Eisenhower" literally means "iron-hewer". If we accept that most European surnames come from some ancestor's line of work, this suggests that, had the 34th President been of English descent rather than German, his name would have been that most mundane of all English names, "Smith."
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@HardwareGeek said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@dcon said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I use <something>@<MyPersonalDomain>.com
This. With
<something>
being essentially any RFC-compliant local-part. It makes coming up with single-use addresses for registering on websites and stuff easy........ i got a mention notification for that......
wtf nodebb?
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@accalia He edited it. The original post was badly mangled. Not surprised you got @mentioned.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
i got a mention notification for that
I originally @ mentioned you in the
<abbr>
text, but that broke :nod:, so I removed the @. Sorry to confuse you.
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At work we have emails that are based on our usernames in the corporate domain. Then we have aliases that are First.MI.Last@company.com. For a while there was a guy with the same first, last and middle name as me, except he also had a Jr or III or something like that. Usernames are based on lastname and then they start adding letters from your first name until it's unique within the company.
I used to get a fair amount of email meant for him. Even phone calls. A couple of times I was getting nasty emails and then calls from corporate security warning me that they were going to cut me off from the corporate network unless I got the malware cleaned off of my computer.
At the time I was using Linux so it was obvious (to me) that it wasn't my computer.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
Still you have to do a fair bit of digging to find my legal identity from my online name
Or get gifted an Amazon voucher from you. I think I remember your first name but I still have the email I could confirm from
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@boomzilla said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
A couple of times I was getting nasty emails and then calls from corporate security warning me that they were going to cut me off from the corporate network unless I got the malware cleaned off of my computer.
At the time I was using Linux so it was obvious (to me) that it wasn't my computer.
Oh, you mean the OS that's loaded onto the millions of IoT devices that are now being hacked en masse to create botnets at a never-before-seen scale?
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@Karla said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
It got so annoying to type that many characters (both names are 7 letters)
I'm 7 and 7. It's never bothered me when typing my email (first.last@gmail) but it is annoying when paper forms ask for an email address and dont give you enough space
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@masonwheeler said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
Oh, you mean the OS that's loaded onto the millions of IoT devices that are now being hacked en masse to create botnets at a never-before-seen scale?
Mostly I meant the one that wasn't joined to the domain and so was obviously not causing a problem based on what the IT drone was telling me.
But also, no, probably not the same as what's going into IoT devices.
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@HardwareGeek said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
i got a mention notification for that
I originally @ mentioned you in the
<abbr>
text, but that broke :nod:, so I removed the @. Sorry to confuse you.ah. mystery solved.
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@Jaloopa said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
Still you have to do a fair bit of digging to find my legal identity from my online name
Or get gifted an Amazon voucher from you. I think I remember your first name but I still have the email I could confirm from
SSSSSH! I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW MY NAME IS KYLEE!
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@djls45 said:
@Karla said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@izzion said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Karla
Psh, a 7 letter last name. So short, it's practically smaller than Trump's hands.Reeeeeeeal amazing people have 10 letter last names flexes ;)
Edit: Also, a last name that has a non-English etymolgy, and has several famous people with similar sounding English etymology last names, so I get misspelled last names on most of my unsolicited snail mail. And some from people who know me, too :p
LOL it was also a pain when filling out paper form (at doctor's offices etc).
Misspellings, mispronounciation, etc. I stopped correcting people for calling me the wrong name 15 years ago.
Oh, man! My last name is only six letters, but it has a Germanic origin, and it seems like very few people can spell it correctly, much less pronounce it correctly. (It's not hard at all!)
And the nickname I use is very uncommon, but is quite similar to many other more common nicknames, so people usually try one of those if they've only heard it and not seen it written down. (I can think of only two other people with this name who are alive right now: one was named after me, and the other is a woman whom I don't know personally whose parents apparently didn't realize that it's a male name.)
It does make it really easy to identify telemarketers. :P
Actually telemarketers tend to pronounce my name correctly. It also isn't difficult. The secretary at my dentist adds ñ to my last name, someone else added a k in the last syllable of my first name (to something that is an extremely uncommon name).
I've had trophies with C instead of a K, and extra e.
And even more commonly is being called a different but similar name:
Tracy, Stacy
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@Jaloopa said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I'm 7 and 7. It's never bothered me when typing my email (first.last@gmail) but it is annoying when paper forms ask for an email address and dont give you enough space
I'm 5 and 6. It's fun creating a web-id - 'we recommend first-initial+last-name'. Ok. 'ERROR: User name must be at least 8 characters.' Fuck you too.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@djls45 said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I can nearly guarantee that I have a completely unique name on earth at this time, and probably in all history.
I chose my name very carefully such that this would be the case.
i'm currently debating whether to merge my legal name with my name.... but it's so fecking annoying to change your legal name.... it's not that expensive honestly..... just annoying.
You get a freebie if you get married.
(It doesn't have to be your spouse's name, either. I'm pretty sure you can change your first and/or last name to anything you want.)
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@anotherusername said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@djls45 said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I can nearly guarantee that I have a completely unique name on earth at this time, and probably in all history.
I chose my name very carefully such that this would be the case.
i'm currently debating whether to merge my legal name with my name.... but it's so fecking annoying to change your legal name.... it's not that expensive honestly..... just annoying.
You get a freebie if you get married.
(It doesn't have to be your spouse's name, either. I'm pretty sure you can change your first and/or last name to anything you want.)
Actually both spouse can change their name to anything they want.
At least in some jurisdictions. YMMV
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@anotherusername said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@djls45 said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I can nearly guarantee that I have a completely unique name on earth at this time, and probably in all history.
I chose my name very carefully such that this would be the case.
i'm currently debating whether to merge my legal name with my name.... but it's so fecking annoying to change your legal name.... it's not that expensive honestly..... just annoying.
You get a freebie if you get married.
(It doesn't have to be your spouse's name, either. I'm pretty sure you can change your first and/or last name to anything you want.)
see.... the legal side of it's only a third of the annoyance.
another third is getting all your names changed in your banking, and credit cards, and shops, and... and..
the other third is getting your friends to use the "new" name
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
another third is getting all your names changed in your banking, and credit cards, and shops, and... and..
Which is one of the reasons I didn't want to change my name. I also liked how my first name went with my last name.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
the other third is getting your friends to use the "new" name
I have a dear friend who I knew for a number of years during and after college before she got married. I almost always think of her married name; it's only been 25 years.
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@HardwareGeek said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
the other third is getting your friends to use the "new" name
I have a dear friend who I knew for a number of years during and after college before she got married. I almost always think of her married name; it's only been 25 years.
exactly!
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
when she said "take my name" she meant the whole thing.
...through the anterior entrance?
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@Karla said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@anotherusername said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@djls45 said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I can nearly guarantee that I have a completely unique name on earth at this time, and probably in all history.
I chose my name very carefully such that this would be the case.
i'm currently debating whether to merge my legal name with my name.... but it's so fecking annoying to change your legal name.... it's not that expensive honestly..... just annoying.
You get a freebie if you get married.
(It doesn't have to be your spouse's name, either. I'm pretty sure you can change your first and/or last name to anything you want.)
Actually both spouse can change their name to anything they want.
At least in some jurisdictions. YMMV
Yes. That's what I said. (No, but really, I meant the general "you", not "you because you're a woman". It's true; both spouses have the option to change their legal name on the marriage license.)
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I sort of changed my first name when I got married.
I've been going through my whole life thinking I had a first name, two middle names and a last name. That's the full name I used on everything official, including things like my driving license.
A few years ago I was applying for my first passport, filled in my full name and sent off my birth certificate as requested. Having not really looked closely at said certificate, I hadn't noticed that it had my name as J {lastname}. If I had noticed, I would have assumed everyone just had their initial. The passport office didn't agree and asked for evidence of my change of name from J Last to First Middle Middle Last. I didn't have any, having never officially changed my name, and so got my passport in the name of J.
My wife didn't want to say "I take you J", so we enquired about this with the registrar. Because I've been going by the full name all my life, I was able to be on the marriage certificate as First Middle Middle Last, otherwise J Last and now have an official document joining both my identities and confusing future descendants trying to trace their ancestry
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I've been contemplating adding an extra middle name or two to my name, but there's just two minor issues:
- I can't decide what names to add
- I'm lazy :D
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@RaceProUK said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I've been contemplating adding an extra middle name or two to my name
They're overrated. I only use my middle initial (much less my middle name) because I needed it to distinguish from someone else in my class in school when I was 13.
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@masonwheeler I receive lots of wrong emails because mine is <common last/middle name><digit>@gmail.com
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@xaade said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
Be prepared for all the test email you'd get.
I'd bet @asdf is the lead on receiving test mail, because why type "firstname" when I can simply hit they keyboard where my hand already is.
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@fbmac And that's why IANA has reserved
example.com
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@UndergroundCode said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I have firstname.lastname@gmail, and never get anybody else's email.
I had to make up a middle name. Frankly I like it more than my real one.
Never really got much e-mail not addressed to me. Once I managed to get a package, though - it turned out another Maciej Stachowski lived on the same street as me, the address on the label had the house/apartment number scribbled illegibly, and the post office workers were friends with my family so they figured it must be for me and "corrected" the address.
Managed to find the other guy in the phonebook, though.
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@Jaloopa said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
it is annoying when paper forms ask for an email address and dont give you enough space
Our Marketing forced IT to change everyone's email addresses to be pretty much the longest form available; I need 32 characters to write it out (and I used to only need 13). No paper form provides enough space. Occasionally, online forms also don't…
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@dkf said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
They're overrated. I only use my middle initial (much less my middle name) because I needed it to distinguish from someone else in my class in school when I was 13.
I sometimes go by my middle name when I want to be slightly anonymous for some reason.
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@fbmac said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I'd bet @asdf is the lead on receiving test mail
I've never used "asdf" in an email address, but I have used other key combinations which are easy to type. Sometimes, when I feel like having some fun, I actually reply to the test emails I receive.
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@Jaloopa said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@dkf said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
They're overrated. I only use my middle initial (much less my middle name) because I needed it to distinguish from someone else in my class in school when I was 13.
I sometimes go by my middle name when I want to be slightly anonymous for some reason.
I go by my middle name.
The company I work at decided to randomly use my middle name for things.
I get, "I looked, but I didn't find you at all... wait, are you [firstname]?" all the time.
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@xaade said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I go by my middle name.
The company I work at decided to randomly use my middle name for things.A friend of mine used to use a name at work that wasn't one of his names at all, formally, on the grounds that his actual name caused much more confusion.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
SSSSSH! I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW MY NAME IS KYLEE!
You had already convinced me to accept that Accalia is a fictional character written by an author that prefer to remain anonymous. When did that change?
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@Jaloopa I bet there are a lot of software that reject your one character legal first name.
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@fbmac yes. Pre registering for boarding passes is out. Most other stuff I don't use my single character name for, since my passport is the only official documentation with that
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@dkf said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
Occasionally, online forms also don't…
which is annoying as shit, the RFC spec for email addresses allows for 240 characters at the most pessimistic (and 360 at the most permissive)
whenever i find a form that does that i send an email to their webmaster from a purposefully excessively long email alias to complain that i cannot use their service because their service does not allow my email address.
i do the same thing if they don't allow the +tag for gmail emails.
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@fbmac said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
written by an author that prefer to remain anonymous
Pffff ... we all know it's @boomzilla
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@Jaloopa you mean that passport you MiB agents use to travel to other planets, right?
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@Jaloopa said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
confusing future descendants trying to trace their ancestry
Grrr!
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@HardwareGeek are you my great great great grandson come back in time to find out what your ancestor was up to?
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@Maciejasjmj said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
Once I managed to get a package, though - it turned out another Maciej Stachowski lived on the same street as me, the address on the label had the house/apartment number scribbled illegibly, and the post office workers were friends with my family so they figured it must be for me and "corrected" the address.
At least it wasn't a court hearing invite, like my friend got.
Over here some of the streets near city borders are often named by the next larger city you'll get to / have come from if you take that street out of / into the city. So, for example, you cold have a "Metropolis st." in Smallville.
Well, my friend lived at
<street name>
<house number>
in<city 1>
. Turns out there was someone at<city 2>
with exact same name living at<city 1 street>
<same house number>
.The court order was about him not paying alimony for his two school-aged children. Which we all found to be rather impressive since he was 17 at the time...