Comments on: worst email address to say down a phone?

Question: worst email address to say down a phone?

kev23f — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:27:11 -0800

I'm searching for an old blog post, where they wrote about email addresses that were really difficult to call out over the phone. For example one of them went something like this: kevTwentyThreeTheNumber23at@GeenotGmaildot.com

Not a life or death question obviously, would just love to find the post again. Thanks in advance.

By: ijoshua

ijoshua — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:34:57 -0800

McSweeney's

By: kev23f

kev23f — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:38:27 -0800

Excellent, thank you ijoshua.
That just really tickles my funny bone for some reason.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:44:44 -0800

Funny because Mike Ward actually has all those addresses. Or did once, anyway.

By: Raybun

Raybun — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:47:23 -0800

My old address was at net1plus. This was a PTA to give out over the phone.

By: willem

willem — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:07:05 -0800

A cute one: the person behind dotat.at can be reached at dot@...

By: coppermoss

coppermoss — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:51:23 -0800

FWIW, I like your example better than any of the ones on the McSweeney's list.

By: tomcooke

tomcooke — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:08:57 -0800

Perhaps also of interest:

What does the name "Slashdot" mean?

"Slashdot" is a sort of obnoxious parody of a URL. When I originally registered the domain, I wanted to make the URL silly, and unpronounceable. Try reading out the full URL to http://slashdot.org and you'll see what I mean. Of course my cocky little joke has turned around and bit me in the butt because now I am called upon constantly to tell people my URL or email address. I can't tell you how many people respond confused "So do I spell out the 'dot' or is that just a period?"