On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:02:11 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: > > Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project <[email protected]> > > Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it > become too long for many web forms and email clients: > > Zhang Weiwu the support engineer of Office IT services of ICD SS > <[email protected]> > > So what would a *nix Guru make this shorter?
Hard to tell as you are not providing many details :-) 1/ Do you have any requirements to fulfill? I.e., if it must appear the company name and job positition in the username. 2/ Can you provide an alias alongside with the full address? That way, users may have a long e-mail address and a short alias they can use if they experience any problem when they have to give their e-mail address at any website 3/ Keep it simple Avoid mixing different characters like "_" (underscore), "." (dots) and "-" (dash) to sepparate words. Keeping the same format is easier to remeber: "[email protected]" or "surenamename- [email protected]" 4/ Use signatures and e-mail header fields ("Company:") for expanding information about your corporative data. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
