Stalking the perfect E-mail address
Nov. 9th, 2012 11:21 amBeing supremely pissed by Gmail's interface redesign, which gives no shits about users with disabilities, I've been contemplating the switch to another E-mail provider. My search is, of course, limited by what user names are available.
My first name is pretty common, as is my last name, so first-initial-last-name is NEVER available for me. Most E-mail providers don't let you have an address less than six characters [stupid!], so my initials are right out. And I refuse to put a string of numbers at the end of my name.
I wish I could have a personal E-mail address like my work address: first-initial-last-name@four-letter-organization-abbreviation.org. It's comprehensible, simple and easy to type, as well as to say over the phone.
I'd love to have an E-mail address that was first-initial-last-name@a-simple-noun-that's-relatively-short-and-easy-to-type-or-say-over-the-phone. I tried using first-initial-last-name@oddpla.net [my personal domain name], but nobody got that it was supposed to be Odd Planet. I always got, "What? What's an oddpla?"
Sigh...
My first name is pretty common, as is my last name, so first-initial-last-name is NEVER available for me. Most E-mail providers don't let you have an address less than six characters [stupid!], so my initials are right out. And I refuse to put a string of numbers at the end of my name.
I wish I could have a personal E-mail address like my work address: first-initial-last-name@four-letter-organization-abbreviation.org. It's comprehensible, simple and easy to type, as well as to say over the phone.
I'd love to have an E-mail address that was first-initial-last-name@a-simple-noun-that's-relatively-short-and-easy-to-type-or-say-over-the-phone. I tried using first-initial-last-name@oddpla.net [my personal domain name], but nobody got that it was supposed to be Odd Planet. I always got, "What? What's an oddpla?"
Sigh...