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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I sympathize.  My sister has an "ethnic" (albeit white person) name and it drives her bonkers when people seemingly intentionally spell it wrong.  It's literally right there in the email address.  :roll:  I have a boring white person name and I also get really twitchy when people give me a nickname I didn't ask for.  I've had to learn to make a little bit of a joke out of it -- "Hey can you not call me Lizzie?  I don't realize you're talking to me since I've never used that nickname." -- but it's very frustrating.  Why can't people use the name you advertise?[/quote]

I work for a federal agency and they will only use your legal name in the email, like Frederick Smith. It's so frustrating and people get really upset when you don't know whether they want to be Fred or Rick or even know that they go by their middle name. I think my work could fix these issues by making emails what people want to be called. Fred.Smith@.gov instead of making us guess. Sure people put it in their signatures, but when I'm emailing someone with a longer first name that often nicknamed, I don't know what to put- Jenn or Jennifer? Does Charles actually go by Charles? Is it really James or Jim? It's even harder when people go by an unrelated name or their middle name.

And then when I email James, who I think goes by Jim, and he doesn't correct me- should I just keep calling him James forever? [/quote]

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