Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Name conflicts in automatically generated email addresses
matteocorti writes: I work at medium-sized university and we are considering reducing the number of domains used for email addresses (now around 350): the goal is to have all the 30K personal addresses in a single domain.
This will increase the clashes for the local part of the address for people with the same first and last name (1.6%).
We are considering several options: one of them is to use "username@domain.tld" and the other is to use "first.last@domain.tld". The first case will avoid the any conflict in the addresses (usernames are unique) but the second is fancier. Which approach do your organization use? How are name conflicts (homonyms) solved? Manually or automatically (e.g., by adding a number)?
This will increase the clashes for the local part of the address for people with the same first and last name (1.6%).
We are considering several options: one of them is to use "username@domain.tld" and the other is to use "first.last@domain.tld". The first case will avoid the any conflict in the addresses (usernames are unique) but the second is fancier. Which approach do your organization use? How are name conflicts (homonyms) solved? Manually or automatically (e.g., by adding a number)?
