Sort of a poll, but definately mundane and pointless…
My work email looks like this - firstinitial.surname@companyname.org.uk
What does yours look like?
Grim
:rolleyes: it’s the afternoon!
firstname.lastname@nl.companyname.com
The nl part is interesting. It’s of course the code for the Netherlands. People in our London offices have UK where I have NL. Americans have US. Germans have DE, et cetera. What this adds, I don’t really know: clients tend to know which country they are in, and it only causes bogus e-mail addresses when someone moves from one country to another for work reasons. I know some Americans who’ve worked here for 5 years, and still have the US part in their e-mail addies. Weird.
initials@department.governmententity.stateinitials.countryinitials
And thats just because I’m an old-timer. Newbies are firstnameinitiallastname@department.governmententity.stateinitials.countryinitials!
firstname.lastname@companyname.com is standard, but since I’ve been here awhile firstinitialmiddleinitiallastname@companyname.com still works as well.
Long live conformity!! 
firstname.lastname@company.com.
At my previous job, I was firstinitiallastname@company.com, but I asked for and got firstname@company.com as a redirect to me.
Not that I ever used it, though.
This is what I have as well.
We don’t have individual email accounts, but each department has a computer used for jobs done in that department, so the email addresses to the account on each computer is DepartmentStorenumber@companyname.com
first.middle.last@company.edu or userid@company.edu or whateveryouwant@company.edu
I have a tendency to use the second two interchangeabley.
No limitations? I assume there were rules about vulgarity, but if you wanted to have fetchezlavache@company.com, you could?
Neato.
same here.
firstthreelettersoffirstnamelastname@propertyname.companyname.com
Normally its just first initial & last name but 2 other people in the company also have this combo so we just draw the first name out until it’s unique.
But being the email admin is fun, I’ve created some interesting account names for testing (and also for screwing around and emailing my internet homies).
firstnamelastinitial@companyname.org
I also get:
info@companyname.org and restoration@companyname.org. Yippee.
New IDs here are
firstname.(optional)middleinitial.lastname@here
slug.sigornio@here
Older ones like mine are
first 6 letters of last name, first initial, middle initial@here
in other words, Slug would be sigorns@here
REALLY old IDs are like #2, but with a “z” in front. If Slug were a 10-year veteran, he’d be zsigorns@here.
We would probably be strongly discouraged using obscene addresses in a professional context, but I don’t think there’s any inherent limitation. However, we share our pool of email addresses with our customers, so there’s a good chance that anything vulgar or profane is already taken.
For those who are nosy, no, the email address in my profile is not my work email address.
I’m glad this thread is here because I’ve been wanting to discuss this:
I work for a city, or as many cities are legally known, a “municipal corporation.” It’s not Seattle, but for the purposes of this discussion let’s pretend it’s Seattle.
Since the beginning of cities being online, the format has been near-universal:
firstinitiallastname@ci.seattle.wa.us and the website has been thus:
www.ci.seattle.wa.us. OK sure, the order of all those elements is not necessarily intuitive, but once you’ve learned it, you’ve got the web and email addresses of every city employee in the United States. I have a friend who works for Glendale, CA, and I email her there all the time – I don’t need to memorize anything; I already know the format, and so do you, if you know that Glendale is in CA and have been paying attention.
Well, things are changing. Too many residents have squawked about how confusing all that “.ci” and “.us” stuff is, so we’ve changed our address to the deceptively simple www.seattle.gov or firstinitiallastname@seattle.gov. (Again, it’s not actually Seattle.)
The trend is catching on – everybody’s doing this now. Sounds great, but the unity of form has been shattered. Now when I contact other cities, I’m no longer sure. Some have gotten the coveted .gov domain. Some have settled for .com or .org. Some get to use just their city’s name, but if it’s a common name, they have to resort to addresses like www.the-city-of-springfield.org, which is completely unguessable compared to the fully logical www.ci.springfield.il.us. (For the third time, these examples are made up – I don’t know if Springfield, Illinois has made the switch yet or not.)
Anyway, it pisses me off. Instead of knowing people’s web and email addresses, I now have to look them up every time. We have fixed what wasn’t broken and created an utter mess out of what was a beautiful system, all because some citizens are put off by scary-sounding syllables like “.ci”. :rolleyes:
I suppose I’ll get over it, but thanks for the opportunity to vent.
It used to be firstinitiallastname@company.com and I think that will still work even, but now it’s firstname.lastname@company.com.