The Trouble With Cryptic Email Names
Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:45PM EDT
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Do you have friends and family with bizarre email names like Glyptal, Styx1000, Dude5? Me, too. I can understand using these names for the incognito web activities in your life like commenting on blog posts and e-shopping. But why make people who know you have to perform a mental matching test every time they get your email?
This Labor Day weekend I'm in serious trouble thanks to cryptic email names. We're throwing a family party and, truthfully, I'm not sure who's showing up. I'm convinced that because they were email names saved in my "Family" list on Evite we'll recognize and be able to put a name to an email name when they show. My mom is convinced that a few absolute strangers are going to turn up—maybe a work colleague of mine or an old boyfriend of one of the kids who should have been purged from the family list.
I'd love to blame Evite for making it too easy to send out invitations. I should probably blame myself for not clearing out my lists every now and then. But I'm going to blame people who think their email name is some sort of cipher. Can't wait to meet you, Glyptal and Styx!
To the rest of you, stay safe and enjoy your weekend.
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2 Posted by floridaanntown on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:00PM EDT Report Abuse
Don't you have an address listing that shows the nickname and the real name?
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3 Posted by ice_maiden3024 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:22PM EDT Report Abuse
Point is it shouldn't really be a problem since most websites that offer e-mail accounts give you the oportunity to save them in your list alongside a name. Therefore you should be seeing the name rather than the cryptic e-mail address
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4 Posted by gatika.taylor on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:06PM EDT Report Abuse
Getting to use your real name for the most common email providers is unusual. Creativity is typically a must...
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5 Posted by armedwithafender on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:57PM EDT Report Abuse
What about my email name? People know it's me because I made it something that everyone knows me for...I like guitars and especially Fender ones. I hate to leave it behind, and it's always on me somewhere, whether a picture or what not, so I almost always have my guitar with me and am theoretically "armed with a fender" and people know it's me because of that...does that make mine cryptic just because it doesn't have my name in it?
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6 Posted by rockandrollgoddess on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:47PM EDT Report Abuse
dude, don't they have it so when you put in a new email address, you write the name of whose email it is? and every time you compose on email, doesn't it show in little quotes who you're typing to? So what's the big fuss all about? let people do what they want. And if you're email account isn't one with the little quotes with the names in them, then switch systems! Problem solved! No need to fume about it! whatever. Peace.
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7 Posted by ttygrr125 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:23PM EDT Report Abuse
Most good e-mail services allow you to put a name to an e-mail address. Allowing you to subtitle or even rename what you see in your address book. Who wants an e-mail address with their own name on it?
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8 Posted by bgxscott1 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:06PM EDT Report Abuse
can you get a transfer here? or should you wait for the post man, then ask for code and or password? thx!for the help!
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9 Posted by tygerlili95 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:25PM EDT Report Abuse
i always get confused when it comes to emailing everyone to a get together. that is why i call by phone most of the time or i call the closest people and hav them spread the word out to every one else that i know! it usually works out pretty well for me.
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10 Posted by savannahmagic5 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:06PM EDT Report Abuse
wow. how interesting. i guess it sort of has a point, but who really cares...
1 Posted by justiceinmexico on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:44PM EDT Report Abuse
Email names are not bank account numbers or passwords. They are electronic addresses. The same applies to Online Chatting nicknames.