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@Onyx said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
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...
Someone's been busy!
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@Jaloopa said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@HardwareGeek are you my great great great grandson come back in time to find out what your ancestor was up to?
No, but I'm very interested in what my own great great great grandfather was up to. I'm just (mock) on behalf of your hypothetical great great great grandson who may someday be confused and frustrated by your name confusion.
I've only run into that sort confusion with one of my ancestors (and it wasn't really all that confusing, because it's pretty well documented by previous researchers). A great5 (or 6 or so; CBA to look it up right now) grandfather was named after one of those biblical characters whose name was changed mid-life because "hereafter you shall be called
Name2
becausemeaning of Name2
is applicable," and he used both names. Mostly, though, I'm frustrated by ancestors who just materialized out of nowhere, with no clue to where they came from.
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@HardwareGeek said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I'm just (mock) on behalf of your hypothetical great great great grandson who may someday be confused and frustrated by your name confusion.
It gets worse. My brother has the exact same name on his birth certificate and is currently going through similar bother trying to get his bank account converted to a student account
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@Onyx said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
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...
He had married and divorced his own children? I'd think alimony would be the least of his problems.
Alimony is support for one's ex-spouse, also called spousal support; failure to pay this is a problem. The money for one's kids is child support, and failure to pay it is a bigger problem; the government is significantly more enthusiastic about tracking down deadbeat parents than deadbeat ex-spouses.
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@HardwareGeek said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Onyx said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
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...
He had married and divorced his own children? I'd think alimony would be the least of his problems.
Alimony is support for one's ex-spouse, also called spousal support; failure to pay this is a problem. The money for one's kids is child support, and failure to pay it is a bigger problem; the government is significantly more enthusiastic about tracking down deadbeat parents than deadbeat ex-spouses.
I plead ESL, your honor!
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@Jaloopa said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@HardwareGeek said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I'm just (mock) on behalf of your hypothetical great great great grandson who may someday be confused and frustrated by your name confusion.
It gets worse. My brother has the exact same name on his birth certificate and is currently going through similar bother trying to get his bank account converted to a student account
It seems to me that this is a situation in which legally changing your names (yours and your brother's) would be a good idea, and rather simpler than an arbitrary name change, as you're just changing your legal names to match what everyone is already using, not trying to get everyone you know to use a new name.
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@Dragnslcr said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
to them computers are shiny boxes full of magic and little demons that gibber and wail, and sort the mail so it goes to the right person.
Wait, you mean Terry Pratchett lied to me?
You're thinking of cameras. Computers are full of ants.
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@dkf said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@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.
My third boss at my first company is something of a 2nd [insert family member] to me. He's made sure I've had opportunities, and I got everything he needed done well. When he left, I followed him to the new company.
At that first company, his first name was similar to the Director's first name, so he went by his last name. It's kind of stuck in my head now, and the last name doesn't sound obviously last name to me.
At the new company, I would call him by his last name without thinking anything of it, and it caused several people to ask why him why I did that.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@djls45 said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
That could be cool, unless you're leery of associating your online persona with your RL identity.
meh. a little, but really it's a losing battle. Like i slipped up a couple of times and while i've done a good job of removing the links, once the links were made on the internet its impossible to remove completely.
Still you have to do a fair bit of digging to find my legal identity from my online name so i guess that's close enough.... Unless i decide to change my name legally to match my actual name.
I've been getting a little more paranoid about that in the last few years. Created this account as part of a project to stop using accounts with the same name across various boards and replace them with accounts with a unique name for every board. I'd like to think it makes it much harder to figure out who I really am based on postings on various boards.
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@El_Heffe said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I can understand a typo, but putting mason.wheeler@gmal.com on a form just means he won't get any e-mail.
masonwheeler2000@yahoo.com
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@UndergroundCode said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I've been getting a little more paranoid about that in the last few years. Created this account as part of a project to stop using accounts with the same name across various boards and replace them with accounts with a unique name for every board. I'd like to think it makes it much harder to figure out who I really am based on postings on various boards.
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@CarrieVS said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
Computers are full of ants.
Of course they are. Good old Anthill Inside.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
"I'll go on parade naked before i'll be a Private Ball"
How could she give this chance up?! The only way this gets better is if she marries man already named Ball or he takes her name, so they can be the Balls!
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@anotherusername said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
It's true; both spouses have the option to change their legal name on the marriage license
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@Yamikuronue said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@anotherusername said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
It's true; both spouses have the option to change their legal name on the marriage license
FTFY ;)
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@boomzilla said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
At the time I was using Linux so it was obvious (to me) that it wasn't my computer.
Using Linux is enough for our automated security software to refuse to connect the VPN. Also, dual-boot or disabling UEFI or any number of things. Of course the security software doesn't tell you why it's not connecting, or even that it's your fault. Just some generic "it didn't work" message.
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@another_sam A few months ago my company announced some security plan to make the VPN somehow confirm that you're using company hardware to connect. It may support Macs, but no one has admitted to planning to support Linux.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
i do the same thing if they don't allow the +tag for gmail emails.
I hate this one too. What's your success rate? Mine is zero.
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@boomzilla said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
A few months ago my company announced some security plan to make the VPN somehow confirm that you're using company hardware to connect.
Oh, the other part of the "security" software is to ensure you're running a virus scanner. It quickly becomes obvious why Linux is a problem here.
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@another_sam We have something like that. It doesn't do anything for Linux, but it won't let you on if you're running Windows without AV or if you're running XP.
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@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!
Strange, I would have taken you for a Jaimee... :P
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@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@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.
Ooh! Can you forward me one too? That souns like fun!
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@dkf said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Onyx said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
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...
Someone's been busy!
Yeah, totally possible actually, assuming certain factors of maturity...
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@Onyx said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@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...
I wonder if any street names and house numbers in Glendale, WI match with Glendale, CA.
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@dse said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@El_Heffe said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
I can understand a typo, but putting mason.wheeler@gmal.com on a form just means he won't get any e-mail.
masonwheeler2000@yahoo.com
I learned. My address is 2002@gmail.com!
And most of the spams I get are for german porn sites! How exciting!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
2002@gmail.com
That's quite a short gmail address.
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@ben_lubar said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Onyx said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@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...
I wonder if any street names and house numbers in Glendale, WI match with Glendale, CA.
Or Glendale, AZ!
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@ben_lubar said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
2002@gmail.com
That's quite a short gmail address.
Well, I forgot to put in my password, it's really *******2002@gmail.com!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@ben_lubar said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
2002@gmail.com
That's quite a short gmail address.
Well, I forgot to put in my password, it's really *******2002@gmail.com!
That's really quite interesting. You posted hunter22002@gmail.com but it just shows up to me as *******2002@gmail.com
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@ben_lubar said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@ben_lubar said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
2002@gmail.com
That's quite a short gmail address.
Well, I forgot to put in my password, it's really *******2002@gmail.com!
That's really quite interesting. You posted hunter22002@gmail.com but it just shows up to me as *******2002@gmail.com
Oh shoot! There was an extra 2 there! Whoops!
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@HardwareGeek said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
ancestors who just materialized out of nowhere, with no clue to where they came from
Time traveller alert!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@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.
Ooh! Can you forward me one too? That souns like fun!
next time i run across a site that does that i'll forward it to you.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@accalia said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@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!
Strange, I would have taken you for a Jaimee... :P
MY NAME IS KENDRA! NOT JAIMEE!
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@ben_lubar said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
That's quite a short gmail address.
What's the shortest possible email address? (from a real existing domain, not some pretend a.b, and one that would be valid for delivering email, not some kind of localhost hack)
I'm guessing something along the line of "a@bc.de", I don't think there are TLD shorter than 2 letters, nor domain names shorter than that? (there could be in theory, but I don't think there is)
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@remi said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
What's the shortest possible email address?
i@i.it
I used the narrowest letters to ensure it really is the shortest
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@RaceProUK i.it returns a DNS error, so I wonder whether it is a real domain?
I know 2 letters domains are a thing, e.g. ba.com, so there must be some 2-letters in a 2-letters TLD, but do some TLD assign 1 letter domains?
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@remi You asked for the shortest possible, not the shortest working :P
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status: considering checking if
cl.it
is available for registration...
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@RaceProUK said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@remi You asked for the shortest possible, not the shortest working :P
Not quite...
from a real existing domain
The address doesn't have to exist, but the domain has to.
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@Scarlet_Manuka Thank you. I pondered for a bit of time how to write my question. It is obvious that if allowing domains that might exist while following rules, the shortest is probably a@a.a (or even a@a, I'm not sure there is anything in the rules preventing a domain to be simply the TLD?). But that's kind of a pointless question to ask (well, even more pointless as the one I asked...).
There is still wiggle room as there is no easy way to check that an email address exists (apart from sending an email and actually getting a positive answer from the server), so the best I could find was to ask about an existing domain, then we'll assume that the owner could easily set up a one-letter email account in that domain.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
but the domain has to
/me wonders how much it would cost to buy
i.it
...
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@RaceProUK
is screw.it already taken?Edit: yes but no content
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@Luhmann said in Everyone, please double-check your email address:
@RaceProUK
is screw.it already taken?Edit: yes but no content
So is
damn.it
.Which is a shame, I kinda want that just so I can gift @fbmac a working email with that domain.
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@Onyx
you could fbmac.it
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A real email address of that length (and it even has two i's in it).
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@RaceProUK spending much with domains on the new tld era is