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When IT insists on autogenerated email addresses… (lemmy.world)
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[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 34 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 0 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 34 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

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