To the following e-mail:-
Many Universities, government offices and businesses tend to strip the last name down to 6 characters and add the first and last initial to either the beginning or end to make up an e-mail address, ie., Mary L. Ferguson = mlfergus or fergusml. They are just now beginning to realise the problems this practice may cause when you have a large and diverse pool of people to support with e-mail. Add to that a large database of company/college acronyms and you have some very funny addresses (although they are undoubtedly not funny to the individual involved):
Some examples of actual e-mail addresses seen on the net:
This was added:-
We have a similar method here at Ford. i.e. Rob Burge becomes rburge@ford.com
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These were taken from the Jaguar telephone directory.
On the theme of strange names, to date, I have worked with Terry Thomas, Tony Hancock and even a guy called Gordon Bennet (yes it's true) and a German called Hans Neeson (bumps a daisy!)
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Mike Boyle