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[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

CEO gets "randomly assigned" the name of a ww2 German politician... 💀

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FirstInitial LastName is common format. I knew someone named Aaron Ryan who got stuck with the email address “aryan@company.com”.

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just one dot dividing the name would make it a lot better

[–] joby@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully, a.ryan@example.com and aryan@example.com should be delivered to the same inbox.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no requirement to do so, although GMail's adoption of this non-standard seems to have popularized the practice.

[–] joby@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stand corrected. I haven't used anything other than proton mail in a while and it works there. I thought it was part of the standard

[–] PoorlyWrittenPapyrus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hilbert Tlerston never stood a chance

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And that poor receptionist, Penelope Nisbet

[–] samus7070@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

A place I worked at actually did this to a person named Diane Cupps.

[–] Matthew@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bumblefumble@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the famous Nazi leader Hidler.

[–] abclop99@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

It would be “hiler”

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Adam Olfano? What about him?