Win2K Account Names and Email Addresses -- Please Help!!!

[Joe Hardin]

We have a new Win2K network and I am in the process of creating the
usernames for the individual accounts. The network currently is not on the
internet, and there are no immediate plans for an Exchange server.
Connectivity to the internet and having our own Exchange mail server will
come later; when we have come to more fully utilize our new network and it's
capabilities.

What considerations should be given to the format of the usernames for the
individual users. As an example should we name usernames as follows:

(e-mail address removed)

or

(e-mail address removed)

or

(e-mail address removed)


I would like when the time comes to deploy an Exchange server on our network
for there to be as little upset as possible to our usernames in relation to
the email account names as possible.

Finally let me state an example of the domain name format that we have and
are using:

We have registered as an example: www.acme.com

Internally on the new intranet we are using a domain in the form of:
corp.acme.com


Thanks for all of your help,

Joe Hardin
(e-mail address removed)

 

[dcdon]

Joe,

You have a great point. Probably the best you can do is to look for
progressive people. A companies presence leads to a very definite true
difference in the way people from within and without, look at perceptions
in tandem with reality, and also the real mechanism and efficiencies of
operations.

Sounds like voodoo economics coming from Bezos (I wish, nah I don't). Best
you can do is look to not reinventing the wheel. Look to what other very
talented and progressive companies do. A hit list might be Oracle, Dell,
Microsoft, and companies that use the internet for enterprize like Amazon,
Ebay, Apple (one of the most innovative groups in this world, but not the
best at business execution), HP (as bad they hate Fierro(sp?), she has a
tight ??? ship)<g>.

From my Observation, simple is best. "Memory ease" is the ticket. Yeaaah,
that's the ticket. Longer names suck. Marks like hyphens, and even dots are
are harder to remember. Also, I don't know why www has to preceed URL's,
except when they are so short they become obscure. Let me used a short
example. The companie's name is "O". If you see O.com, it just doen't ring
the bell of internet ambiance. Where www.O.com does seem. One that many
thought the greatest is "go". It just didn't work, whatever the other
reasons (eihesner)(sp?). But let's look at spacecraft.com. Does
www.spacecraft.com or spacecraft.com work. How about http://spacecraft.com
or http://www.spacecraft.com ; the former to me. May be taste and my
obcessiveness cause me to split straws until perfection exudes, abounds.

I'm getting carried away, but in my past business dealings, simplicity comes
after very much work as architects go through developing projects.

As for front names, the period works for larger quanties of accounts and
initials can be used in front or back or both. Also initials and first names
for cases where simplicity pays dividends. I once new a company, who placed
ads on the radio. The ads said to call "friendly Bob Adams". That was only a
key to know how well the advertisement performed. Very rememberable.

I wish you well on your venture,
don
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*Note: If that is your real emaill address, you best not use it raw in NG's





Depending on the ultimate quantity of email addresses
We have a new Win2K network and I am in the process of creating the
usernames for the individual accounts. The network currently is not on the
internet, and there are no immediate plans for an Exchange server.
Connectivity to the internet and having our own Exchange mail server will
come later; when we have come to more fully utilize our new network and it's
capabilities.

What considerations should be given to the format of the usernames for the
individual users. As an example should we name usernames as follows:

(e-mail address removed)

or

(e-mail address removed)

or

(e-mail address removed)


I would like when the time comes to deploy an Exchange server on our network
for there to be as little upset as possible to our usernames in relation to
the email account names as possible.

Finally let me state an example of the domain name format that we have and
are using:

We have registered as an example: www.acme.com

Internally on the new intranet we are using a domain in the form of:
corp.acme.com


Thanks for all of your help,

Joe Hardin
(e-mail address removed)