Email addresses (again!)

By Lindsay
In a previous post I mentioned that email addresses should NOT be name based.  Instead they should be positioned based.  In organisations where staff move regularly then you are saving the extra cost of mailbox retention/sharing/diverting.  What do I mean?  Ok rather than use myname@mycompany, or firstname.lastname@mycompany, or firstinitial.lastname@mycompany use:

md@
admin1@
production@
sales@

The display name (what people see when you send an email) can be changed to anything to make it user friendly.