on Nov 29, 2018Is it safe to say that the first part of the email ID of Broadcom employees is the same as before and just ca.com was changed to broadcom.com?
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Hi Phil
In general, that principle is adhered to.
However, consider the case of John.Doe@ca.com when there is already a John Doe working at Broadcom with email address John.Doe@broadcom.com. There has to be a suffix or adornment in the name somewhere to differentiate between the two - I have seen a couple of different adornments and so I'm not sure of the rules on how they are generated.
All mail to John.Doe@ca.com is forwarded to the new Broadcom equivalent, so what I have done where needed is to use the old CA mail and ask…
HTH,
Adrian
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It must be bittersweet to say adieu to the short ca.com domain name. And adding insult to injury, one must now type ‘com’ twice!
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Another wrinkle is full first name vs. nicknames.
For instance, my CA email used to be lenn.thompson but my Broadcom one is leonard.thompson. So far I haven't been able to figure out how to change it or create an alias. Mine was always steve.harvey@ca.com, which for 7 years I never questioned, although I was surprised it was never set at stephen.harvey@ca.com , but hey. It has now gone to steve-SH.harvey@broadcom.com, which I find rather clunky!
Hi Phil
In general, that principle is adhered to.
However, consider the case of John.Doe@ca.com when there is already a John Doe working at Broadcom with email address John.Doe@broadcom.com. There has to be a suffix or adornment in the name somewhere to differentiate between the two - I have seen a couple of different adornments and so I'm not sure of the rules on how they are generated.
All mail to John.Doe@ca.com is forwarded to the new Broadcom equivalent, so what I have done where needed is to use the old CA mail and ask…
HTH,
Adrian