The account name you log into when you use Nexus, check Email, or use Ace is usually initial then surname all truncated to eight characters. And if you are unlucky enough to have a popular surname, you may have a number inserted to make your userid unique, and then cut off at 8 characters. I count 2,613 people with the surname ‘Wang’ currently registered.
Maybe you would like a more personal Email address, one that doesn’t have a number and doesn’t truncate your last name. Well, they are available to all members of the UW community.
A feature called friendly Email addresses lets you get Email addresses like Steven.Brown@uwaterloo.ca or Steven.M.Brown@uwaterloo.ca, etc. It forward Email from this friendly address to your real Email account. You can tell your mail program to specify the friendly address when you send mail, and users will come to know you only by the friendly address.
To learn more about friendly Email addresses, see http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cs/FriendlyEmailInvitation.pdf
Erick
First off I wanted to say that I really appreciate you actively trying to make changes to Engineering Computing. Change is much needed. I also want to commend you for informing the student base of the happenings within, through your blog (especially the graphs/charts) and IW article, both are quite informative and interesting. One comment: present data in your charts/graphs as clear as possible to avoid any ambiguity. Keep up the good work!
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