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Re:Ask HN: What length do you choose for email fields? by wladimir on Friday December 10, 2010 @09:18AM (#1991678)
I'm seriously curious why someone would choose a mail address >=30 characters.
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Re:Ask HN: What length do you choose for email fields? by cnvogel on Friday December 10, 2010 @02:56PM (#1992921)
The company I work for has a policy to take your full name in the local part. So if you are

Juan Alfonso de Borja y Estevez

then by default you'll have a email-address of

[email protected]

This is just the first hit for "long spanish name" I found on google, but I have colleagues that have email-addresses that are that long or (in a few cases) even longer.

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Re:Ask HN: What length do you choose for email fields? by jacquesm on Friday December 10, 2010 @11:13AM (#1992059)
Some isps will auto-generate an email address based on the first and lastname of the user + the domain name of the ISP, some corporations do the same. This can get into the +30 characters territory fairly easily.
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