deejay - 10:09 pm on Jun 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

Great post.

It's taken me four years to finally get EVERYONE in the company on a standard email addy format.

When I started, we had john, doe, johndoe, doej, jdoe, and jd all being used with various or no separators.

Finally I've got everyone standardised to john.doe.

Of course, it did help that in a twelve month period our staff of 12 suddenly included two Daves, two Johns and two Andys.

More importantly... I've finally got my one holdout consultant who has for years used his personal address for company email to adopt a company address. Didn't matter how often I mentioned the risks to the boss... 'oh, he's a good guy - that'll never happen'. And guess what.. having his email check two addresses is not leaching away the minutes of his life after all.