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The @ symbol and global.

Blue_Blaze

By Blue_Blaze,
Posted on: 2008-06-26 08:05 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Funny one here and yes also random

A few months ago in work I stared using the @ symbol when directing conversation towards people in emails just like I would when getting a global ID for someone in COX. A strange phenomena has happened within the world wide team that I work with the last few weeks and now everyone is using the @ symbol when directing conversation to someone within an email if the email has multiple recipients.

Just wondering does anyone know how this @ symbol came to be used in such a way in COX?

Thanks

@EU Blue Blaze

 

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Because they way @ is pronunced? As in "at"... /t @(at]"insert global here".

but thats just me so @ everyone else.

 

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My Friend recently used this to address whomever in a big facebook message we had going round.

Found it odd, but quickly jumped on board, thought it was amusing.

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I've been using "@" to address specific people since I first started using the internet, long before CoH. Spawned from the knowledge "@" sounded like "at" - it just seemed sensible.