Stalking the perfect E-mail address

[modernwizard]

Being 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...

Comments

[seventhbard]

Oh maaaaaaan, tell me about it. In undergrad I called myself the "freakmage" and got an email account to match. My personal motto was "I'm not one of the freaks. I'm the one who freaks the freaks." It was a reclaimy thing and meant in an empowering way, but now it just sounds silly, and of course the word tends to have less of a bizarro connotation and more of a sexual one now, which just makes it worse, but the BEST part is that trying to give it to people on the phone is just... forget it. Nobody who isn't a fantasy fiction fan understands the word "mage." They can't spell it if you say it, and if you spell it first, they inevitably pronounce it "MAHj" like they think it's fuckin' French or something. I thought it was a quirk of my mother's to say it that way but nope, it's bloody frikkin everyone who's never seen the word. But I have like, 5 email addresses, so. It's just that that's the one I use for anything that might remotely result in anything even resembling spam. XD