Johann Gambolputty's AWAD adventure

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:18:33 -0400
From: Lars Seagren
Subject: Is this really your email address ???

Cool. Crazy?

Made me laugh.

Lars

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:02:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ira Ashkenes
Subject: your e-mail address

Hi,
a friend passed on your e-mail address as the longest e-mail address she
had ever seen. I was just wondering if it is a real address.

Regards,

Ira

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: hottie

you're ridiculous. lose some letters.

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From: John Antoun
Subject: Nice Email Address
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:17:42 -0700

!

From: "Andy Barnitz"
Subject: Are you for real?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 14:29:41 PDT

Hello,

I am a fellow patron of 'a word a day'! I wanted to see if there was some
truth to the magnitude of this e-mail address!

How does this fit onto your business cards???

Have a good day!

Signed

- Just Curious

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From: John Hurlbut
Subject: Is this a real e-mail address . . .
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:43:41 -0700

I found your e-mail on AWAD's monthly newsletter. Sorry for the intrusion,
but I had to know.

Thanks!
John Hurlbut, MCP
Systems Administrator
Adobe Systems
(206) 675-7877
jhurlbut@adobe.com

See Adobe's website at:
http://www.adobe.com/

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 14:44:15 -0700
From: Huy Tan Phan
Subject: Testing

From: "Bob Joseph"
Subject: Your e-mail address
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 21:44:45 GMT

Dude, your address is way too long. You should change it.

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From: Anand_Santanakrishnan@mastercard.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:50:57 -0500
Subject: hi!

i have never seen such a long email address before! i got it from wordsmith.org.
If you get this email just ackowledge! thanks.
anand.

From: David Golding
Subject: The longest email address
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:54:31 +1000

Could you please confirm whether this is the longest email address in the
world?

My 8 year old son would like to know.

Many thanks,

David

From: Shchorah@aol.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 19:21:08 EDT
Subject: Doesn't it get awfully fatiguing...

typing out all those letters? ;)

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:51:07 -0700
From: "Trevor W. Jackson"
Subject: Is this for real?

I just had to see if this address actually works. I've had many complete
messages that were shorter.

Is this a record? If so, are you in Guinness?

If you worked for Microlabs would you have the shortest?

Cheers TWJ (mine is pronounced jordee ["Geordie" from NE England].

From: Corey McGrath
Subject: Howdy
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:56:19 +1000

I just saw your email address in AWAD.
Pretty cool!

Do you have another address, that you don't have to quote to people?

Cheers,
Corey

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 20:02:45 -0400
From: David Gold
Subject: Whoa!

Dude, what's with your E-mail address?

-David Gold

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 20:40:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Yang Guo
Subject: Hello

I got your email address from the Email Address of the Month AWArD of
A.Word.A.Day. I am just curious and say hello to you!

Guo

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 14:52:06 -1000
From: daniel levey- the bionic man
Subject: hello

http://outgoers.hypermart.net
please help support our 4000 mile bike ride across america
if you donate to our fund, you get a personalized section of our webpage, a
certificate of donation, and you name is written on our sponsor Tshirt we
will be wearing while biking

From: "Ann Miller"
Subject: Terrific address
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:25:32 -0400

Hi.
That is a most unusual address. Surely it must have some meaning. What is it?
Ann

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:29:08 -0700
From: David Eastis
Subject: Fellow Wordsmith Fan

Hi Adam (Or is your first name Johann?)

I just saw your e-mail address on Word Smith and
thought I would e-mail you to say I have never seen
one this long? How many letters/characters are there?
Where are you located?

Have a marvelous weekend!

All the best, David
- --
David M. Eastis, Director, Office of Development
AMERICAN RED CROSS, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
2731 N. First Street Phone 408.577.2113
San Jose', CA 95134.2029 Fax 408.577.2050
http://www.redcross.org/ca/scv
http://www.redcross.org

From: "Roche Cuyco"
Subject: test
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:37:39 +0800

test

From: Eeyore469@aol.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:38:28 EDT
Subject: e-mail address

do you ever find that people have problems when you give it to them?? sorry
to bother you...just wondering...

From: gary.clark@dowcorning.com
Subject: wow
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:47:59 -0400

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From: "Rachel Steele"
Subject: Wow.
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 19:08:00 PDT

You have the best email address I've ever seen.
I just thought I'd tell you that.
It was also just tempting to see if wretched little hotmail could handle an
email address that large.

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From: larrythecucumber@juno.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 19:16:12 -0700

Congrats on the winning e-mail address! Wow, what a long one! Is the
middle string (the really long one) a sentence or a bunch of words? I
picked out a lot of words (fried, digger, dingle, dangle, etc.), but is
there a sequence to it? Alternate languages throughout? That would be a
tough address to give to someone if they asked you over the phone for
your address! :) Thanks for the laugh,
Josh Collison
LarryTheCucumber@juno.com (pretty dinky, isn't it?)
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From: YTMEIS@aol.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 22:48:43 EDT
Subject: E-mail

I recently saw your e-mail address featured in an online newsletter, A
Word A Day. I apologize if I seem untrusting, but I just had to test out the
address myself, to see with my own eyes that it exists. What does the whole
e-mail address mean?
Thank you for your time.

- Y.T. Meisner

From: "Joe Poncho"
Subject: e-mail addy
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 19:56:02 PDT

Had to tell you, without doubt that is the best e-mail addy I have ever
seen. Can I call ya dingledangle for short??

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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:00:16 +1200
From: "Ian Bruce"
Subject: Whoa what a long email address..enter that in guniness book of records

Whoa what a long email address..enter that in guniness book of records

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 20:03:42 -0700
From: Michael/Regina Ammerman
Subject: Hallo!

I must see if your address is for real. Pardon the intrusion.

Michael Ammerman
Tucson, AZ USA

From: "Ross Miller"
Subject: G'day
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:10:39 +1200

g'day, Jo -- from New Zealand.

Ross Miller
55 Athens Road
Onehunga
Auckland 6
Ph & Fax 09 / 634 1861
leonard.miller@xtra.co.nz

Subject: Wow.
From: Nicholas J Dekker
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 23:12:45 EDT

I saw your address on the Word-A-Day newsletter. Impressive, to say the
least. Not one you hand out easily, is it?

For what it's worth, congrats.

Nick

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From: Bunggator@aol.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:14:19 EDT
Subject: hey!

nice email address, man!

From: "Meghashri Dalvi"
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 20:30:14 PDT

Hi

Saw your unusual address on A-word-a-day newsletter. Hats off!

Greetings
Meghashri

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From: "fbot previously amid"
Subject: It truly is big
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 20:41:36 PDT

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From: "caroline baca"
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 20:52:33 PDT

cooool email address! hahaha

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From: "Mudit Goel"
Subject: Hi
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:42:35 +0530

Hi ,

I am Mudit. Got your mailid from the unusual mailid's of WordSmith.
Nice Thing. Where did you got it from or did you do it. Do you remeber it ?
Or do you find it difficult to recall when asks for your mail id.

Waiting for a response from you
Mudit.

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:05:11 +0530
From: "Kaushal Y. Divekar"
Subject: Test

Test Mail

From: krithikas@riskinc.com
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:18:25 +0530

hi,

is this really a valid address ??

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:25:17 +0530
From: "Dinakar Avinash Pant"
Subject: what an address

What an email address you have! Compliments!

From: "Narayan, Ajith(CTS)"
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:36:45 +0530

Hai,
I am Ajith from India . just wanted to get introduced

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wordsmith [SMTP:wsmith@wordsmith.org]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 11:54 PM
> To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org
> Subject: AWADnews, August 1999
>
> * A.Word.A.Day mailing list crosses 200,000 subscriber mark! *
>
> AWADnews
> August 1999
>
> CONTENTS:
>
> 1. A.Word.A.Day in Media
> 2. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day
> 3. New Countries and Domains on the List
> 4. Email Address of the Month AWArD
> 5. Credits
> 6. Administrivia
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 1. A.Word.A.Day in Media
>
> A.Word.A.Day has been featured in the following places since the last
> update. If you have noticed it somewhere not listed below, please drop
> me a line at anu@wordsmith.org.
>
> o Raising Teens, Premier Issue, Fall 1999
> o Fox 8 News Cleveland. July 15, 1999
> o Xtra Weekly Newsletter (New Zealand), July 17, 1999
> o San Antonio Express-News, July 26, 1999
> o e-Factory NewsDesk, July 26, 1999
> o The Guardian (UK), July 30, 1999
> o Family PC, August 1999
> o First for Women, August 23, 1999
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 2. How many people Receive A.Word.A.Day
>
> The following table shows the distribution of addresses by domain name.
> This table, with the flags of these countries, can be seen at:
> http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/stats.html
>
> Domain Count % Domain Description
>
> com 106186 53.0548 Commercial
> net 29366 14.6724 Network
> edu 20536 10.2606 Educational
> kr 5860 2.9279 South Korea
> org 4276 2.1365 Non-Profit Organizations
> ca 4069 2.0330 Canada
> us 3761 1.8791 United States
> au 2637 1.3176 Australia
> in 2482 1.2401 India
> uk 2379 1.1886 United Kingdom
> gov 1960 0.9793 Government
> jp 1477 0.7380 Japan
> de 1150 0.5746 Germany
> cn 918 0.4587 China
> mil 917 0.4582 USA Military
> br 831 0.4152 Brazil
> tw 814 0.4067 Taiwan
> nz 763 0.3812 New Zealand
> za 756 0.3777 South Africa
> sg 727 0.3632 Singapore
> se 521 0.2603 Sweden
> es 494 0.2468 Spain
> il 467 0.2333 Israel
> my 464 0.2318 Malaysia
> it 379 0.1894 Italy
> fr 348 0.1739 France
> mx 295 0.1474 Mexico
> vn 282 0.1409 Vietnam
> ru 277 0.1384 Russian Federation
> pl 270 0.1349 Poland
> ie 239 0.1194 Ireland
> nl 233 0.1164 Netherlands
> no 227 0.1134 Norway
> hk 224 0.1119 Hong Kong
> ch 206 0.1029 Switzerland
> be 201 0.1004 Belgium
> ar 188 0.0939 Argentina
> fi 183 0.0914 Finland
> tr 167 0.0834 Turkey
> dk 136 0.0680 Denmark
> id 136 0.0680 Indonesia
> th 134 0.0670 Thailand
> ph 117 0.0585 Philippines
> ae 112 0.0560 United Arab Emirates
> hu 109 0.0545 Hungary
> at 96 0.0480 Austria
> cz 91 0.0455 Czech Republic
> co 86 0.0430 Colombia
> pk 80 0.0400 Pakistan
> ua 73 0.0365 Ukraine
> gr 69 0.0345 Greece
> ro 62 0.0310 Romania
> om 59 0.0295 Oman
> pt 53 0.0265 Portugal
> sk 51 0.0255 Slovak Republic
> yu 46 0.0230 Yugoslavia
> pe 44 0.0220 Peru
> tt 43 0.0215 Trinidad and Tobago
> ve 42 0.0210 Venezuela
> lt 37 0.0185 Lithuania
> si 35 0.0175 Slovenia
> cl 33 0.0165 Chile
> su 33 0.0165 Former USSR
> sa 31 0.0155 Saudi Arabia
> hr 29 0.0145 Croatia
> is 29 0.0145 Iceland
> bg 26 0.0130 Bulgaria
> lb 26 0.0130 Lebanon
> ir 23 0.0115 Iran
> bh 22 0.0110 Bahrain
> cu 22 0.0110 Cuba
> lk 22 0.0110 Sri Lanka
> bm 21 0.0105 Bermuda
> int 21 0.0105 International
> lv 21 0.0105 Latvia
> bw 20 0.0100 Botswana
> ee 20 0.0100 Estonia
> ne 20 0.0100 Niger
> uy 19 0.0095 Uruguay
> na 17 0.0085 Namibia
> jm 16 0.0080 Jamaica
> eg 16 0.0080 Egypt
> mr 16 0.0080 Mauritania
> np 15 0.0075 Nepal
> bf 14 0.0070 Burkina Faso
> qa 14 0.0070 Qatar
> cr 13 0.0065 Costa Rica
> mt 13 0.0065 Malta
> bo 12 0.0060 Bolivia
> zw 12 0.0060 Zimbabwe
> do 12 0.0060 Dominican Republic
> am 12 0.0060 Armenia
> ke 11 0.0055 Kenya
> ec 11 0.0055 Ecuador
> jo 10 0.0050 Jordan
> lc 10 0.0050 Saint Lucia
> lu 10 0.0050 Luxembourg
> to 10 0.0050 Tonga
> bs 9 0.0045 Bahamas
> cy 9 0.0045 Cyprus
> kw 9 0.0045 Kuwait
> fj 9 0.0045 Fiji
> cm 8 0.0040 Cameroon
> mk 8 0.0040 Macedonia
> gy 8 0.0040 Guyana
> sn 7 0.0035 Senegal
> nu 7 0.0035 Niue
> fo 6 0.0030 Faroe Islands
> ge 6 0.0030 Georgia
> mo 5 0.0025 Macau
> mu 5 0.0025 Mauritius
> vi 5 0.0025 Virgin Islands (USA)
> pa 5 0.0025 Panama
> ag 5 0.0025 Antigua and Barbuda
> by 4 0.0020 Belarus
> kz 4 0.0020 Kazakhstan
> dz 4 0.0020 Algeria
> ma 4 0.0020 Morocco
> uz 4 0.0020 Uzbekistan
> gn 4 0.0020 Guinea
> bn 3 0.0015 Brunei Darussalam
> zm 3 0.0015 Zambia
> ci 3 0.0015 Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)
> kh 3 0.0015 Cambodia
> ky 3 0.0015 Cayman Islands
> tn 3 0.0015 Tunisia
> tz 3 0.0015 Tanzania
> md 3 0.0015 Moldova
> mg 3 0.0015 Madagascar
> ug 3 0.0015 Uganda
> mz 3 0.0015 Mozambique
> fm 3 0.0015 Micronesia
> gi 3 0.0015 Gibraltar
> gt 3 0.0015 Guatemala
> ad 3 0.0015 Andorra
> py 3 0.0015 Paraguay
> cd 2 0.0010 Congo
> cx 2 0.0010 Christmas Island
> tg 2 0.0010 Togo
> et 2 0.0010 Ethiopia
> hn 2 0.0010 Honduras
> al 2 0.0010 Albania
> ye 2 0.0010 Yemen
> ba 1 0.0005 Bosnia-Herzegovina
> bb 1 0.0005 Barbados
> je 1 0.0005 Jersey
> cc 1 0.0005 Cocos (Keeling) Islands
> kg 1 0.0005 Kyrgyzstan
> sr 1 0.0005 Suriname
> sz 1 0.0005 Swaziland
> dm 1 0.0005 Dominica
> td 1 0.0005 Chad
> tj 1 0.0005 Tadjikistan
> tm 1 0.0005 Turkmenistan
> ml 1 0.0005 Mali
> mn 1 0.0005 Mongolia
> ms 1 0.0005 Montserrat
> nc 1 0.0005 New Caledonia (French)
> ng 1 0.0005 Nigeria
> ni 1 0.0005 Nicaragua
> gh 1 0.0005 Ghana
> gl 1 0.0005 Greenland
> gu 1 0.0005 Guam
> ws 1 0.0005 Samoa
> pf 1 0.0005 French Polynesia
> an 1 0.0005 Netherlands Antilles
> aw 1 0.0005 Aruba
> -------------
> Total 200144
> -------------
>
> In addition to the above list of countries, AWAD's readership includes:
> Anguilla (ai)
> Bangladesh (bd)
> Barbados (bb)
> Belize (bz)
> British Virgin Islands (vg)
> Haiti (ht)
> These countries do not appear in the above table because the
> subscribers
> use addresses with a different domain. If you are from a country not
> listed here, drop me a line at anu@wordsmith.org and I'll add your
> country to this list.
>
> Stats on Address Lengths:
>
> Mean : 20.190
> Median : 19
> Mode : 18
> Standard Deviation : 4.803
> Longest address length : 247
> Shortest address length: 6
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 3. New Countries on the list
>
> Greenland (gl)
>
> Welcome aboard!
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 4. E-mail Address of the Month AWArD
>
> This section highlights an interesting email address on the AWAD list.
> This month the AWArD goes to:
>
>
> Johann_Gambolputty_de_von_Ausfernschpledenschlittscrascrenbonfriediggerdin
> gledangledonglebursteinvonknackerthrasherapplebangerhorowitzgrandlickgrumb
> elmeyerspelleriactuallycutabitoutdankerkalbsfleischmittleraucher_Von_Haupt
> kopt_of_Ulm@meta-labs.com [Adam Lindsay]
>
> If you know of an unusual email address, you are welcome to send your
> nomination to anu@wordsmith.org.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 5. Credits
>
> o AWAD is created by Anu Garg.
> o Tip o' the hat to Todd J. Derr (tjd@wordsmith.org) for care and
> feeding
> of the computer that houses the wordserver, and keeping it smoothly
> running (thus providing an exception to Murphy's Law).
> o Many thanks to Kate Fissell (kate@wordsmith.org) for her network
> wizardry.
> o Thanks to Stuti Garg (stuti@wordsmith.org) for recording word
> pronunciations in her mellifluous voice.
> o Thanks to Emery Reiff (emery@wordsmith.org) copy editor par
> excellence,
> for making sure all i's are dotted and t's crossed.
> o Thanks to Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V.
> (http://www.lhsl.com)
> for permission to use the American Heritage Dictionary, 3e., in AWAD.
> Their lawyers have asked us to add this: The American Heritage(R)
> Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright 1992,
> 1996
> by Houghton Mifflin Company. Used with permission from Lernout &
> Hauspie
> Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
> o Thanks to Electric Library (http://www.elibrary.com) for help with
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> o Special thanks to all the linguaphiles who have joined and made the
> list
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> 6. Administrivia
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From: ajay_gokhale
Subject: why?
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:43:39 +0530

From: "MICHAEL G KENNEDY"
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:30:48 -0700

Cool name.

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:19:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Laurent Duval
Subject: Why is it the world never remembered the name of...

Well, congratulations, man, a dream fullfilled
if this adress is true, I will die in peace.

I'm looking forward to no "Mail delivery problem"

Laurent Duval
== The best of man is like water (Lao Tseu) ==

From: Vogt Heike
Subject: Wow
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:00:00 +0100

Lieber Johann,

Herzlichen Gl�ckwunsch zu dieser kurzen und einpr�gsamen emailadresse.

You do leave me speechless!

Alles Liebe aus London,

Heike Vogt

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 12:59:30 +0530
From: "Anuja Bitta"
Subject: HI!

Dear Johann,
Just got to know about your e- mail address. I was very intrigued by it and wanted to know how you managed to create this.
I am sure you would be recieving a whole lot of mails asking you the same thing.
Wishing you the best in life
With regards
Anuja

Anuja Bitta
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From: NINII@aol.com
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 06:21:36 EDT
Subject: *****

what a great email address you have.

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 05:32:35 -0500 (GMT)
From: "R. Srikanth"
Subject: Wow!

Dear Mr Adam Lindsay,

I am taking the liberty of writing this msg to verify that this is indeed
yr e-mail address. Why are u using such a big user-ID? Please reply if you
will.

Thanks,
Srik

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Indian Inst. of Astrophysics e-mail: srik@iiap.ernet.in
B'lore, India. Web: ftp://202.41.67.172/home1/srik/index.html

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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 13:24:46 +0200
From: Suzanne Pomeranz
Subject: WHY?

Hi - I saw your address in the A.W.A.D. newsletter - the question being - why the long address? And
just who are you?

suzanne

From: Raul_Lising@email.asetest.com.tw
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 19:42:09 +0800
Subject: Re: AWADnews, August 1999

Hi Adam,

CONGRATULATIONS!

Wordsmith on 99/08/06 03:23:32 AM

To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org
cc: (bcc: Raul Lising/ASET/ASE)
Subject: AWADnews, August 1999

* A.Word.A.Day mailing list crosses 200,000 subscriber mark! *

AWADnews
August 1999

CONTENTS:

1. A.Word.A.Day in Media
2. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day
3. New Countries and Domains on the List
4. Email Address of the Month AWArD
5. Credits
6. Administrivia

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1. A.Word.A.Day in Media

A.Word.A.Day has been featured in the following places since the last
update. If you have noticed it somewhere not listed below, please drop
me a line at anu@wordsmith.org.

o Raising Teens, Premier Issue, Fall 1999
o Fox 8 News Cleveland. July 15, 1999
o Xtra Weekly Newsletter (New Zealand), July 17, 1999
o San Antonio Express-News, July 26, 1999
o e-Factory NewsDesk, July 26, 1999
o The Guardian (UK), July 30, 1999
o Family PC, August 1999
o First for Women, August 23, 1999

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2. How many people Receive A.Word.A.Day

The following table shows the distribution of addresses by domain name.
This table, with the flags of these countries, can be seen at:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/stats.html

Domain Count % Domain Description

com 106186 53.0548 Commercial
net 29366 14.6724 Network
edu 20536 10.2606 Educational
kr 5860 2.9279 South Korea
org 4276 2.1365 Non-Profit Organizations
ca 4069 2.0330 Canada
us 3761 1.8791 United States
au 2637 1.3176 Australia
in 2482 1.2401 India
uk 2379 1.1886 United Kingdom
gov 1960 0.9793 Government
jp 1477 0.7380 Japan
de 1150 0.5746 Germany
cn 918 0.4587 China
mil 917 0.4582 USA Military
br 831 0.4152 Brazil
tw 814 0.4067 Taiwan
nz 763 0.3812 New Zealand
za 756 0.3777 South Africa
sg 727 0.3632 Singapore
se 521 0.2603 Sweden
es 494 0.2468 Spain
il 467 0.2333 Israel
my 464 0.2318 Malaysia
it 379 0.1894 Italy
fr 348 0.1739 France
mx 295 0.1474 Mexico
vn 282 0.1409 Vietnam
ru 277 0.1384 Russian Federation
pl 270 0.1349 Poland
ie 239 0.1194 Ireland
nl 233 0.1164 Netherlands
no 227 0.1134 Norway
hk 224 0.1119 Hong Kong
ch 206 0.1029 Switzerland
be 201 0.1004 Belgium
ar 188 0.0939 Argentina
fi 183 0.0914 Finland
tr 167 0.0834 Turkey
dk 136 0.0680 Denmark
id 136 0.0680 Indonesia
th 134 0.0670 Thailand
ph 117 0.0585 Philippines
ae 112 0.0560 United Arab Emirates
hu 109 0.0545 Hungary
at 96 0.0480 Austria
cz 91 0.0455 Czech Republic
co 86 0.0430 Colombia
pk 80 0.0400 Pakistan
ua 73 0.0365 Ukraine
gr 69 0.0345 Greece
ro 62 0.0310 Romania
om 59 0.0295 Oman
pt 53 0.0265 Portugal
sk 51 0.0255 Slovak Republic
yu 46 0.0230 Yugoslavia
pe 44 0.0220 Peru
tt 43 0.0215 Trinidad and Tobago
ve 42 0.0210 Venezuela
lt 37 0.0185 Lithuania
si 35 0.0175 Slovenia
cl 33 0.0165 Chile
su 33 0.0165 Former USSR
sa 31 0.0155 Saudi Arabia
hr 29 0.0145 Croatia
is 29 0.0145 Iceland
bg 26 0.0130 Bulgaria
lb 26 0.0130 Lebanon
ir 23 0.0115 Iran
bh 22 0.0110 Bahrain
cu 22 0.0110 Cuba
lk 22 0.0110 Sri Lanka
bm 21 0.0105 Bermuda
int 21 0.0105 International
lv 21 0.0105 Latvia
bw 20 0.0100 Botswana
ee 20 0.0100 Estonia
ne 20 0.0100 Niger
uy 19 0.0095 Uruguay
na 17 0.0085 Namibia
jm 16 0.0080 Jamaica
eg 16 0.0080 Egypt
mr 16 0.0080 Mauritania
np 15 0.0075 Nepal
bf 14 0.0070 Burkina Faso
qa 14 0.0070 Qatar
cr 13 0.0065 Costa Rica
mt 13 0.0065 Malta
bo 12 0.0060 Bolivia
zw 12 0.0060 Zimbabwe
do 12 0.0060 Dominican Republic
am 12 0.0060 Armenia
ke 11 0.0055 Kenya
ec 11 0.0055 Ecuador
jo 10 0.0050 Jordan
lc 10 0.0050 Saint Lucia
lu 10 0.0050 Luxembourg
to 10 0.0050 Tonga
bs 9 0.0045 Bahamas
cy 9 0.0045 Cyprus
kw 9 0.0045 Kuwait
fj 9 0.0045 Fiji
cm 8 0.0040 Cameroon
mk 8 0.0040 Macedonia
gy 8 0.0040 Guyana
sn 7 0.0035 Senegal
nu 7 0.0035 Niue
fo 6 0.0030 Faroe Islands
ge 6 0.0030 Georgia
mo 5 0.0025 Macau
mu 5 0.0025 Mauritius
vi 5 0.0025 Virgin Islands (USA)
pa 5 0.0025 Panama
ag 5 0.0025 Antigua and Barbuda
by 4 0.0020 Belarus
kz 4 0.0020 Kazakhstan
dz 4 0.0020 Algeria
ma 4 0.0020 Morocco
uz 4 0.0020 Uzbekistan
gn 4 0.0020 Guinea
bn 3 0.0015 Brunei Darussalam
zm 3 0.0015 Zambia
ci 3 0.0015 Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)
kh 3 0.0015 Cambodia
ky 3 0.0015 Cayman Islands
tn 3 0.0015 Tunisia
tz 3 0.0015 Tanzania
md 3 0.0015 Moldova
mg 3 0.0015 Madagascar
ug 3 0.0015 Uganda
mz 3 0.0015 Mozambique
fm 3 0.0015 Micronesia
gi 3 0.0015 Gibraltar
gt 3 0.0015 Guatemala
ad 3 0.0015 Andorra
py 3 0.0015 Paraguay
cd 2 0.0010 Congo
cx 2 0.0010 Christmas Island
tg 2 0.0010 Togo
et 2 0.0010 Ethiopia
hn 2 0.0010 Honduras
al 2 0.0010 Albania
ye 2 0.0010 Yemen
ba 1 0.0005 Bosnia-Herzegovina
bb 1 0.0005 Barbados
je 1 0.0005 Jersey
cc 1 0.0005 Cocos (Keeling) Islands
kg 1 0.0005 Kyrgyzstan
sr 1 0.0005 Suriname
sz 1 0.0005 Swaziland
dm 1 0.0005 Dominica
td 1 0.0005 Chad
tj 1 0.0005 Tadjikistan
tm 1 0.0005 Turkmenistan
ml 1 0.0005 Mali
mn 1 0.0005 Mongolia
ms 1 0.0005 Montserrat
nc 1 0.0005 New Caledonia (French)
ng 1 0.0005 Nigeria
ni 1 0.0005 Nicaragua
gh 1 0.0005 Ghana
gl 1 0.0005 Greenland
gu 1 0.0005 Guam
ws 1 0.0005 Samoa
pf 1 0.0005 French Polynesia
an 1 0.0005 Netherlands Antilles
aw 1 0.0005 Aruba
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Total 200144
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In addition to the above list of countries, AWAD's readership includes:
Anguilla (ai)
Bangladesh (bd)
Barbados (bb)
Belize (bz)
British Virgin Islands (vg)
Haiti (ht)
These countries do not appear in the above table because the subscribers
use addresses with a different domain. If you are from a country not
listed here, drop me a line at anu@wordsmith.org and I'll add your
country to this list.

Stats on Address Lengths:

Mean : 20.190
Median : 19
Mode : 18
Standard Deviation : 4.803
Longest address length : 247
Shortest address length: 6

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3. New Countries on the list

Greenland (gl)

Welcome aboard!

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4. E-mail Address of the Month AWArD

This section highlights an interesting email address on the AWAD list.
This month the AWArD goes to:

Johann_Gambolputty_de_von_Ausfernschpledenschlittscrascrenbonfriediggerdingledangledonglebursteinvonknackerthrasherapplebangerhorowitzgrandl
ickgrumbelmeyerspelleriactuallycutabitoutdankerkalbsfleischmittleraucher_Von_Hauptkopt_of_Ulm@meta-labs.com [Adam Lindsay]

If you know of an unusual email address, you are welcome to send your
nomination to anu@wordsmith.org.

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o Tip o' the hat to Todd J. Derr (tjd@wordsmith.org) for care and feeding
of the computer that houses the wordserver, and keeping it smoothly
running (thus providing an exception to Murphy's Law).
o Many thanks to Kate Fissell (kate@wordsmith.org) for her network
wizardry.
o Thanks to Stuti Garg (stuti@wordsmith.org) for recording word
pronunciations in her mellifluous voice.
o Thanks to Emery Reiff (emery@wordsmith.org) copy editor par excellence,
for making sure all i's are dotted and t's crossed.
o Thanks to Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. (http://www.lhsl.com)
for permission to use the American Heritage Dictionary, 3e., in AWAD.
Their lawyers have asked us to add this: The American Heritage(R)
Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright 1992, 1996
by Houghton Mifflin Company. Used with permission from Lernout & Hauspie
Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
o Thanks to Electric Library (http://www.elibrary.com) for help with
citation sources.
o Special thanks to all the linguaphiles who have joined and made the list
what it is.

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for the resources mentioned above.

A.Word.A.Day ISSN: 1524-6884

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Anu Garg anu@wordsmith.org anugarg@acm.org http://www.wordsmith.org/anu
(AWAD.19990805.028545.001.933877412)

From: "Joseph Annis"
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:49:23 +0100

Send me a reply..
I can't believe this is a real e-mail address !!!
what is it about 255 characters !!???

Joseph V. Annis
Sr. Telecommunications Consultant
Boise Cascade Office Products
630-773-5288 Office

From: "Holder, Michael J. SFC (99TH RSC)"
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:54:34 -0400

What's up with the address ? Just to be different or is the meaning of life
encoded somewhere in there?

From: Bettina_Dold@idx.com
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:13:22 -0400
Subject: Brauchst Du Hilfe?

To: (edit message for full list)

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 06:31:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: brook

is this e-mail address real?
please respond.
Thank you.
_____________________________________________________________
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Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

From: "Mularczyk, James E"
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:34:50 -0400

Nice address!!! Do you know it by heart?

From: "Ernestine Goldston"
Subject: English, please
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 06:43:15 PDT

Be interested in hearing from you if you like to. I am a grandmother who
lives in Texas, USA. Married with 4 grown sons, 3 daughters-in law, and 7
grandchildren. Enjoy your day.
Ernestine G.

_______________________________________________________________
Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

From: Chris Brooks
Subject: hehehe
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:49:29 -0500

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 10:06:35 -0400
From: "Abigail Kolb"
Subject: One question

Your e-mail address was listed in Anu Garg's Wordsmith report. Amazing! I notice in the middle of the fantastic name you created you have the phrase "I actually cut a bit out." Did you? If so, (I'm almost afraid to ask) what is the full name?!?

Danke.

- --Abigail Kolb (I think I'll stick with my monosyllabic German last name, thank you!)

From: "Swain, Laura"
Subject: How is this possible?
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:45:05 -0400

How is your address so long? What does it mean? How do you remember it?

From: NeilCUK@aol.com
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:52:05 EDT
Subject: Hmmmm

it's a bit long. isn't it?

From: Jenne Hamlin
Subject: you are too cool
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:02:14 -0500

i saw your email address on the AWAD update. good show taking one of the
funniest MP sketches and making it eh longest damn email address i've ever
seen... cool. ;)

___________________________________________________

Jenne Hamlin jenne@planetsymphony.com
Account Manager http://www.planetsymphony.com
Planet Symphony [p] 318.233.8544 x116
A division of G2 Digital, Inc. [f] 318.233.8494
___________________________________________________

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From: DONFromPA@webtv.net (DON RINGER)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:23:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: WOW!

From: "Jude Walter Pinto"
Subject: wow
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 23:53:59 +0530

whats wrong with you,

what does your wmail mean??

From: "Amanda Larkman"
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 00:18:05 +0100

That's the most ridiculous email address I have ever seen.

Regards to you.

Subject: hi
From: Sherif Ghali
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 20:49:45 -0400

Noticed your long-email prize on A-Word-A-Day.

Gee, I wonder if my mailer (elm) handles such long emails!

Cheers,

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Sherif Ghali Department of Computer Science |
ghali@cs.toronto.edu University of Toronto |
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ghali/ Toronto, ON M5S 3G4 |

From: "Trisha davies"
Subject: Solve for X
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:57:59 -0400

Dear Mr. de von Scatterletter ,

Study and figure as I might , I couldn't find the missing X in your E-quation . Does my mind's eye merely filter it out , or is it in fact the missing X ?

Thanking you , in advance , kindly , for your prompt solution to this problem ,
Myxtified Linguaphile

From: Bravocat17@aol.com
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 00:35:31 EDT
Subject: nice address

nice address.

From: L3165@webtv.net (Michele Laduron)
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 07:58:48 -0500 (CDT)

I.m sure if I looked at you address long enough..I would be able to
figure it out completely....I'm sure it has some sexual
connotation.......with all the
"dingledangledongle,nackerthrasherappklebanger,ect.......
you pulled one over on them!!!!!

From: Mergirlxv@aol.com
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 13:47:51 EDT
Subject: ur address

wait, lemme get this straight when someone asks u for your email address you
tell them this? right? that is sooooooooo crazy. how long did it take u to
memorize it?

From: MartinA@aol.com
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 02:47:09 EDT
Subject: No Subject

Is there a translation?

Martin

Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 13:31:59 +0530
From: "Rajendran Dandapani"
Subject: Hi!

Just wanted to say Hi to somebody who purportedly has the world's longest email!

D.Rajendran, 3rd Agenda.
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get."

Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 15:35:35 +0530
From: "Raghavendra M.K."
Subject: hiwhatalongmailaddress

hi there,
congrats for the mail address.think you have the longest mail address in the world,anyway, mail me asap.
hallelujah....
raghav

From: "Tom X."
Subject: nice
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 19:23:28 EDT

you goofball

that is the coolest address i have ever seen.

what do you do whenever your friends say, hey man, what's your email, and
you have to say all that?

_______________________________________________________________
Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 16:46:22 -0700
From: "Pandurang V. Nayak"
Subject: what an email id

Terrific one !!!

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Pandurang V Nayak
Programming Team @ 3rdagenda
http://www.3rdagenda.com

"Money is not everything,
But be sure to make lot of it before talking such nonsense"

From: DDonald306@aol.com
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 21:09:16 EDT
Subject: Oy!

Sorry, I just had to see if your e-mail address was real. You'll probably
get a bunch of these from AWAD subscribers. Nicely done!

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 11:26:42 +0900
From: jdgao
Subject: Hello,Adam Lindsay

Hello,Adam Lindsay:
Congratulation.
This month the AWArD goes to:

Johann_Gambolputty_de_von_Ausfernschpledenschlittscrascrenbonfriediggerdingledangledonglebursteinvonknackerthrasherapplebangerhorowitzgrandlickgrumbelmeyerspelleriactuallycutabitoutdankerkalbsfleischmittleraucher_Von_Hauptkopt_of_Ulm@meta-labs.com
[Adam Lindsay]

I am a Chinese young man.I love A.Word.A.Day.I am astonished after
seeing the so long e-mail address.I can't help writing
this letter.Please don't mind and write back to me if possible.

Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 23:07:30 -0400
From: Paul Graham
Subject: Hello - random message here..

Hi there.. this is a random message to all possible addresses at
meta-labs.

If this reaches you - please reply so I can check off the address in my
database...

Actually - just joking - saw this address in the "A Word A Day" mailing
list - and was just curious
i) if it existed
ii) how many thing would crash on the way.

Cheers,
Paul Graham