Many colleges and businesses tend to strip the last name down to 6 characters and add the first and last initial to either the beginning or end to make up an E-Mail address. For example, Mary L. Ferguson = mlfergus or fergusml. They are just now beginning to realize the problems that may happen when you have a large and diverse pool of people to choose from.
Add to that a large database of company/college Acronyms and you have some very funny addresses. Probably not funny to the individual involved, nonetheless:
Actual E-mail Addresses
- Isabelle Haydon Adcock (Toys "R" Us) - snipped-for-privacy@tru.com
- Bradley Thomas Kissering (Brady Electrical, Northern Division, Overton Canada) - snipped-for-privacy@bendover.com
- Ida Beatrice Ballinger (Ball State University) - snipped-for-privacy@bsu.edu
- Amanda Sue Pickering (Purdue University) - snipped-for-privacy@pu.edu
- Barbara Joan Beeranger (Myplace Home Decorating) - snipped-for-privacy@myplace.com
- Francis Kevin Kissinger (Las Verdes University) - snipped-for-privacy@lvu.edu
- Mary Ellen Dickinson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) - snipped-for-privacy@iup.edu
- George David Blowmer (Drop Front Drawers & Cabinets Inc.) - snipped-for-privacy@dropdrawers.com
- Martha Elizibeth Cummins (Fresno University) - snipped-for-privacy@fu.edu
- Hellen Thomas Eatons (Duke University) - snipped-for-privacy@dku.edu