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by mark_integerdsv 3951 days ago
Ha! I have always been jealous of the people who got firstname.lastname@gmail.com but now I see that privilege has a price.

I have a very common first name / last name combo (it's awful, it's not 'John Smith' but frankly it may as well be.)

I worked at a large corporate where there were four people who shared that combo.

We constantly got each others email and meeting requests.

One of them wouldn't have any of it but the other two and myself got to the point where we'd forward an email with a comment like: "Hey, your wife isn't able to fetch the baby from creche this afternoon, see below."

In a weird way I kind of miss it.