When I worked for my university’s Student Computing department, usernames were all “up to 7 characters from surname + the first letter of their given name.” So there were plenty of stories about bad usernames that the admins would have to fix.
The best one for me, personally, was when I helped a student out whose surname was Takashi and his first name started with a T.
It didn’t help that no one at Oregon State considered the ‘www’ when they chose the school’s first domain name. So that turned into takashit@www.orst.edu
Edit to add: This was in the mid-90s. That was that guy’s first and (at the time) only email address.
By the end of the first term, www.orst.edu became ‘osu.orst.edu’ (www still worked, but nothing linked to it). Then over the summer everything was changed to oregonstate.edu.
I worked at a place a decade ago where I worked with schools in my country. An admin at a school called; her name was Barbara. Her last name was, and I’m not making this up, “Adcock”.
Her E-mail was “badcock@school”
I couldn’t help but to think “what if her name was Rachel? Or Deborah? Or Sandra?”
When I worked for my university’s Student Computing department, usernames were all “up to 7 characters from surname + the first letter of their given name.” So there were plenty of stories about bad usernames that the admins would have to fix.
The best one for me, personally, was when I helped a student out whose surname was Takashi and his first name started with a T.
It didn’t help that no one at Oregon State considered the ‘www’ when they chose the school’s first domain name. So that turned into takashit@www.orst.edu
Edit to add: This was in the mid-90s. That was that guy’s first and (at the time) only email address.
Oregano State used “www” in their email domain? I totally buy it, but in the “what kinda non tech manager decided on that” kinda way
By the end of the first term, www.orst.edu became ‘osu.orst.edu’ (www still worked, but nothing linked to it). Then over the summer everything was changed to oregonstate.edu.
Ohio, Oregon, and Oklahoma are gonna have to brawl over who gets the OSU name someday.
how else would you know that they’re the wwworst?
That does indeed sound like the wwworst administration.
I worked at a place a decade ago where I worked with schools in my country. An admin at a school called; her name was Barbara. Her last name was, and I’m not making this up, “Adcock”.
Her E-mail was “badcock@school”
I couldn’t help but to think “what if her name was Rachel? Or Deborah? Or Sandra?”
Or Hannah
Or Mary!
Or Louise
You can’t make this shit up.