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I am glad the author's habit of weirdly abbreviating the names of people in the text, regardless of whether the reader is likely to know them, is not widespread

• elzbardico 5y ago
  That's microsoft's 90 meme. People used to mention each other by their email addresses, so bill gates was mentioned as billG. Typical billG general weirdness.
• int_19h 5y ago
  The reason for the weird abbreviations is that these are internal email/Exchange aliases. You quickly get into the habit of using those when you have to deal with email threads or meetings in which there are, say, three Brads - if not using aliases, if the conversation later has to be followed up on, it can be tricky to figure out who you're supposed to contact based on names alone.