(COOLLIST) Shortest e-mail address

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• Subject: (COOLLIST) Shortest e-mail address
• From: "Benjamin L. Combee" <combee@eden.com>
• Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:18:03 -0500 (CDT)
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I was reading the latest _Dr. Dobb's Journal_, a programmer rag, and
the back page editorial had a particular challenge.  They wanted to
find the shortest e-mail address, as in number of characters.  The
editor (Michael Swaine) stated that he had a friend with an eight
letter address.  I was able to match that one with a real address of
mine (c@xp.org), but I couldn't immediately get any shorter.

Possibilities:

- get a one-letter account at x.org (c@x.org = 7 letters)
- find a one-letter computer in a national domain (c@x.us = 6 letters)
- get Strick's taz domain working everywhere (c@taz = 5 letters)

Any further ideas for getting the really short addresses?

P.S. Vernard, it must be fully qualified, so v@cc doesn't count)

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"Why are you so petrified of silence?     | Benjamin L. Combee
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