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196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net

4w ago

.edu rule

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- *kid named Paint
  
  Congratulations, that's the joke.

I worked with a guy named Aaron Dick who who was cursed with always getting adick@hiscompany.com
Aaron was actually very nice.
- Someone whose name is Dick must face a lot of issues in addition to email IDs
- His parents knew exactly what they were doing when deciding on a name with A.

I worked in IT for a bit and the automatically generated emails were first initial last name
With manual adjustments in some cases, such as Sarah Hart (shart@...)
- My company users first letter of the name and the full surname. I thought it was odd when I saw Gina.Ross@... Until I realized.

Just wait until she switches to fingerme@uwu.edu

It's just an invitation to use the Unix finger utility to find user info on them. Like a shortcut to a profile.
- I have always made a .plan file on every unix-like system I have been on. Just in case I get fingered. Heck, even my at home single user devices have a .plan. Just to give the hackers a treat.

This is a priceless gift, Megan. Use it to its fullest potential, and great things will follow.

Once saw hadcock@example.com at an employer. On the other hand Hannah thought it was hilarious.
Hmm, that's probably enough to dox myself to ex-collegues.
- Okay if the ha came from Hannah, was her last name Dcock? Or was it Hannah D. Cock?
  
  Hannah Adcock.

I used to work with a guy named Paul Nessel who became "PNESS" on our network.

The other way around would be cooler. Sounds like a pirate in pain.

And then you’re suspended for an offensive username.

I really hope she was able to get a different email. Cause after this has made the rounds on the internet theres no way that address is even usable anymore.

And the poor lady probably already had a childhood filled with name-based insults.

honestly this is your fault for having the last name finger. skill issue tbh

@uwu.edu is a very emaily of a college

Is this a US university? I'd imagine this Megan Finger here could sue for millions of punitive damages for getting such a username.
- She could probably just contact IT to get it changed...
  
  Yeah, or make a scene and be rich. What would you do?
- I don't understand why it's always in the millions. How the hell would this username account for millions in damage?
  
  It isn't. People just like to bring up the 2 or 3 most extreme examples from a country of a third of a billion people and pretend that's a normal, everyday occurrence. You'd think that people would realize that none of us have ever actually met anyone that ever successfully sued anyone for millions of dollars and extrapolate, but they'd rather be mad at some imaginary problem in a way that conveniently makes it more difficult to use the legal system to defend ourselves from rich people if we "fix" it.
- I've heard you guys hate puns, but dedicating a whole lawsuit type to them is a bit over the edge, IMO...

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