Corrected to …
fingermeg@cwu.edu
fingerme
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Gork@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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Comments
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
cley_faye@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“I don’t understand, that user keeps asking me to fix their email, and they’re more angry each time!”
MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
When I handled these, I always checked for poor taste collisions. If found, granted an immediate exception.
She would be Megan.finger@.
Fuck the old systems with hard character limits.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Firstname.lastname@address is pretty much a universal standard, why would you use anything else?
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My work does first initial last name, which even internally results in tons of jsmith2@company.com.
I don’t really get why I can’t just choose from a list of accepted combinations or something.
dingus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You’d think that every place should do this, but for whatever reason a lot of them do weird shit like in the OP. Not sure why that is. Maybe they are afraid of the characters running too long or something like that for people with long names?
skizzles@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They are probably just trying to keep consistency between an AD instance and Exchange or something like that. Or just laziness.
When we generate new user accounts we run a script that generates an email (so we don’t have to manually do it). It gets generated with the username of the individual which in our case would be first initial, last name. Then another alias gets generates to first.last@x.whatever and is set as primary. While the username@x.whatever is left as an alias, but would still technically work if you emailed it.
If a username already exists we will use the first and second letter of the first name and then the last name, etc.
In the above I mentioned consistency and laziness, but there is also another side, and that is your user base. If you are servicing hundreds of thousands of people or just a ton in general, consistency is very much preferred. Try having to explain to an end user that their login is simply “username” for their computer, but their email is “first.last@x.whatever” oh and let’s go ahead and loop in Azure SSO so now their software license login and login for all these other portals is “username@x.whatever”.
You end up with a mass of confusion. Sometimes simplicity is best when it’s possible.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Megan Bennett Finger
Central Washington UniversityMs. Finger,
Per your request, we can converted your email address to our alternate format: [Surname][Middle Initial]Last (to denote the spelled-out name)[First 2 letters of forename]. Your new email address is now fingerblastme@cwu.edu and your case is now closed.
Thank you,
CWU SupportBenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
dingus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I love this
thewitchslayer@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Worked at a company where emails were first initial then last name. So there was a guy named Shawn Lutz so his email was SLutz@email.com
It seemed I was the only one really aware of that since he almost never sent emails
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Best one I got is c. ries, cries@company.com lol
Jtee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I had a P. Hart who was stuck with phart@company
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
We had a slutski here, too 😂
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There was an Alan Buser at my last company…yep, abuser@company.com. Not only did he have to live with that as his email, but he would occasionally receive reports that definitely should have gone to HR. Eventually they let us alias it to alan@company, but as far as I know when I left he was still getting anything sent to abuser@company too. He was such a nice guy too!
Xatolos@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Reminds me of the search suggestions I’ve seen about suggested search topic:
“Jalen Hurts Fiancee”
First thought was that this Jalen person must have gone all Sean Diddy on his fiancee. Then I found out that his last name is Hurts.
toofpic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As Nikita Grigorev, I was given an allcaps username made out of first two letters of my name and two letters of surname. I complained, but I was told that the process is a process. They changed for the ANAL guy before, but not for me. So I was called basically a slur for two years
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Gosh, I would have never figured this out without the giant useless red line!
StThicket@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
My wife’s name sounds like Annette Alonso (not her real name - this one is made up) , and her new employer had standardised emails the first two letters from the first name and the first two letters from last name. You bet she was furious with anal@company.com, given that she was going to be working with clients. She ultimately got it changed to anna@company.com
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think “anal@company.com” is pretty unique and easy to remember.
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user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
OK, if you insist, I will.
$ finger me Login: me Name: mikhail esteban Directory: /sdf/udd/m/me Shell: /bin/ksh Never logged in. New mail received Sat Feb 22 13:32 2025 (UTC) Unread since Tue Feb 4 07:35 2025 (UTC) No Plan.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
It even tells people where they can do it!
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thank you for the arrow I would’ve never guess myself
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
This scheme makes almost every username sound awful. They new what they’re doing.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I know how to fix this, just had the 3rd letter of her first name.
quink@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Reminds me of Education Queensland’s approach to creating usernames. First letter of the first name, first four letters of the surname. Followed by a sequential number.
I nearly lost it when I saw a staff member by the name of something like Sharon Laverton (names slightly anonymised, but odds are someone else by that name exists) have an email that not only started
slave, but also ended with a number for that final dehumanising touch.slave384@eq.edu.au.