Mike Spamassassin wrote:
I'd take that bet.Really? My yahoo address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not very well related to "Matt Kettler".
While you are almost certainly correct with the likes of those who
subscribe to this group, who often have multiple email addresses,
out there in [EMAIL PROTECTED] land, and hotmail world, most people have a single
email address strongly related to their name.
Most people *try* to have one strongly related to their name, but often they fail to be available so they default back to something related to their interests. One friend of mine who is a skiing buff uses "doubleblack" as an address. Others intentionally choose something unrelated to their name in order to gain privacy. Another friend intentionally uses the all-text spelling of his jersey number from high school sports as his email. i.e. "thirtyone"
I'd say this is actually much more common in the hotmail world than in the admin world. There's too much name collision for easy things like "mkettler" to be available on hotmail.
Back to the original question:
Regardless of whether anyone thinks it is a good test or not, has anyone
yet created such a test?
I doubt it. It's not exactly a straight-forward thing to do. You'd need to have some kind of fuzzy-match algorithm, because there's so many different ways to convert a name to an email.
I use descriptors like: "Matt" "Matt Kettler" "Matthew Kettler" and "Matthew E Kettler"
I use emails like: matt@ mattk@, mkettler@, mekettler@ mattkettler@ mkettler73@ kettlerm@
Trying to map all of the above combinations to each other is kind of tough. Particularly mappings like "Matt" to kettlerm@
