[Gllug] Just say no to first.last email addresses

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Wed Nov 5 18:42:23 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:07, Tethys wrote:
> Some time ago, someone wrote a white paper on why firstname.lastname
> email addresses were a bad idea, and why email addresses shouldn't be
> easily guessable to external parties. Unfortunately, I can't find it
> any more, and Google isn't returning anything useful. It used the fact
> that AT&T once had two Stephen R Bournes as an example, but I can't
> remember much more about it.
> 
> Anyone know of it, or better still, have a reference to somewhere I
> could find it?

I can't find the full white paper any more, but it was written by Eric
Allman. There's a short section on it here:-

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.5

HTH,

Mike.


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