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The format is `${firstLetterFirstName}${lastName}${int}`. My high school followed a similar structure, but had the graduating year as a suffix, implying that t
by ben_jones 10y ago
The format is `${firstLetterFirstName}${lastName}${int}`.
My high school followed a similar structure, but had the graduating year as a suffix, implying that they would never be reused.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was rampant in educational institutions who have to provision emails to people with identical names all the time.
- cmdrfred 10y agowhy not use a sub domain? user@class16.school.com for example.
- staticfish 10y agoor a Gmail wildcard alias username+alias@gmail.com
- kuschku 10y agomost universities where I live use either stu120691 [at] mail.uni-kiel.de, or stu120691 [at] informatik.uni-kiel.de, or allow you to choose a custom prefix for prefix [at] stu.uni-kiel.de and prefix [at] informatik.uni-kiel.de (those addresses are mine, first the generic ID, then the generic ID [at] faculty, then prefix [at] generic (I don’t have one), then prefix [at] faculty; first comes first serve on prefixes)