What is the most standard and professional way to make an email address

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DougoMan

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When choosing what to put before the @whatever.com, should it be:

firstlast@
first.last@
f.last@
first.l@
flast@

I'm leaning towards the last one (first initial last name without period), but would like to do whatever is most common.
 
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DougoMan

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RossMAN said:
For personal or business?


business - first.last@domain.com
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Business

I'm going to be assigning everyone emails at a non-profit that I volunteer at, and want it to be standardized for everyone.

My concerns with first.last is a lot of people have nick names such as Charles going by Charlie or Douglas by Doug. It seems like there might be less potential confusion with just a first initial.
 
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RossMAN

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DougoMan said:
Business

I'm going to be assigning everyone emails at a non-profit that I volunteer at, and want it to be standardized for everyone.

My concerns with first.last is a lot of people have nick names such as Charles going by Charlie or Douglas by Doug. It seems like there might be less potential confusion with just a first initial.
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If it's a small non-profit then why not firstnamelastinitial@domain.com

or firstname@domain.com
 
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Jumpem

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My preference would be: first.last@ or first.mi.last@. You definitely need periods between the names or portions of names.
 
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Atty

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Depends on the name. The norm around my workplace is flast@company.com. I have first.last@gmail and a flast@me that I use personally, neither of which I would fear using on any formal document.

I know some people who have a unique first or last name that is their email at work or outside of it. My first initial (an "A") works well with my last name as an email. Some people's don't.
 
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RossMAN

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Chaotic42 said:
first.last
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tmc said:
+1 for first.last
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How would you handle the OP's nickname problem?

DougoMan said:
My concerns with first.last is a lot of people have nick names such as Charles going by Charlie or Douglas by Doug. It seems like there might be less potential confusion with just a first initial.
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Richard Harris might prefer use Dick Harris?

Huckleberry Robinson might prefer Huck Robinson?
 
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I work for The Man. There are something like 70,000 of us working for The Man.

The Man has set up our email accounts as first.last@TheMan.com

In my case, someone already working for The Man had my name. Rather than firing him so I could take his email address, they set me up as first.m.last@TheMan.com
 
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