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The long and winding email
“While I appreciate that any email system in a large company must have an organised and well-structured email account naming system,” starts Michael Pudney – you know where this is going, don’t you – “I wonder when such a system becomes rather silly.”
He recently received an email from one of his customers: “We have assumed they don’t actually wish to receive emails and will in future send them a pigeon, unless we can persuade our accounts software providers to increase the number of characters available in an email address field to the required 60,” it complained.
The offending email? “Perkins_Shared_Services_Centre_Accounts_Payable@fgwilson.com”.
Can you provide a sillier business email address based on someone’s rigid naming policy?
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