[yellingdog]

I couldn't get <my.name>@gmail but was able to get the.<my.name>. That works pretty well when it's a place where you've already given your name.

[lb1lf]

-Except, of course, when your name is packed with weird (to the receiver) letter combinations.

Being Norwegian and working with foreign clients 99% of the time, I at some point started collecting misspellings of my name; I gave up after having collected more than 40 unique ones.

At a former employer, we solved this by creating aliases made up by our employee # - so I was 698@$COMPANY, for instance.

It sure beat spelling out my name for the umpteenth time over a poor satellite phone connection.

[jweather]

Having a long last name and long company domain name, my work address weighs in at 31 characters, not fun to spell over the phone. I just use a different address if I have to spell it over the phone.

[lucian1900]

I gave up long ago, I now tell my employer to use a much shorter name that is easy in most languages and is similar to my real one.