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...and this reminds me of the time I emailed 'Fred' at 'gmail.com'. Actually 'Fred's' email was 'email.fred@gmail.com' however I mis-heard the 'email.' part eve

...and this reminds me of the time I emailed 'Fred' at 'gmail.com'. Actually 'Fred's' email was 'email.fred@gmail.com' however I mis-heard the 'email.' part even after verbally confirming the address as it seemed too concise. So I send expected email, to then get a reply from the real 'fred@gmail.com', this obviously not being my contractor friend. Turns out that this happens all the time - well considered, properly written emails of significance had been arriving in 'Fred's' inbox, each of them having to be politely returned as 'Fred' was ethical that way... There are downsides to 'ideal' email addresses as well as 'ideal' phone numbers.

TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
I have an email address that is the.myfirstname.mylastname@popularservice.com I repeatedly emailed myself from my work email address to myfistname.mylastname@popularservice.com - I kept forgetting the "the." at the start of my own email address. I only realised when the owner of the other address politely wrote back asking me to stop doing this. I hadn't noticed because the emails were just autohotkey script backups and xml files containing machine settings for a laser cutter and I wasn't really paying attention as to whether I had received them or not. Anyway, I got tired of trying to spell english-word email address to people over the phone, so I registered a domain and now have an unambiguous email address a364 athingy k45j dotthingy com - it's heaps easier to say and write down and nobody has a similar address because I own the domain.