Discussion on question by Just_a_dane: Is it okay to have an email address called "SS"?

Not related to German language, but your company/admins should think of changing the address format in a way it is a) still unique & unambiguous when there are more employees and b) more informative about who is actually mailing.

Just to confirm the statements so far - SS is for Schutzstaffel and is definitely an issue here in Germany, though I am not saying this email adress necessarily would be. Many rightwing extremists are using this abbreviation in various forms, such as tattoos and this kind of mark is rather recognizable here. You may compare it to an adress using [email protected], when you are Klaus-Kunibert Knorr. May not be an issue in business, but the abbreviation is definitely recognized in the respective country.

This also won't be the only case of an awkward email address - consider hi@ (...bye?), bo@ (need a shower?), fu@ (pardon me?), dr@ (are they a doctor?), ho@ (santa? bawdy house?), aa@ (lava? just lazy?), ko@ (are we boxing?), ky@ (isn't that a bit personal?), pa@ (company's dad?), yo@ (homie?)... etc

@puck: The initials are a "part of a name". But that notwithstanding, in my experience, "important" people in an organization often have shorter addresses (this may have to do with those important people also happening to be in the organization for a long time, in particular, having received their account IDs at a time when short IDs were still sufficiently unique). Therefore, in practice, when I'm told someone's 2-letter address, that typically makes an excellent impression to me and tells me one of the higher-ups is servicing my request. The shorter, the better.