From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Of login names
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 09:21:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160718132148.GJ27255@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1607181315350.25696@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Tony Finch scripsit:
> We have a similar scheme which has been running (with minor changes) for
> about 40 years, with a throughput of about 250,000 people in the last 20
> years (the era of bulk user registration). A while back I wrote a note
> about some of the reasons it works well, but I didn't mention that if
> someone ends up with an unfortunate username, we can (modulo language
> barriers) blame the parents...
That works provided that web sites that use email addresses as user
identifiers (a common and IMO laudable practice) don't start to filter
for "rude" expressions in them.
I like your section 2.9, which I can now (like Dr. Johnson and the chapter
on snakes) repeat verbatim.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
How comes city and country to be filled with drones and rogues, our highways
with hackers, and all places with sloth and wickedness?
--W. Blith, Eng. Improver Improved, 1652
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-18 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-16 16:54 Dave Horsfall
2016-07-16 23:04 ` Paul Osborne
2016-07-18 12:24 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-18 13:21 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-07-17 2:56 ` Win Treese
2016-07-17 6:39 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-17 8:06 Rudi Blom
2016-07-17 8:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-17 11:42 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 22:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 0:37 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-18 10:51 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-17 12:05 Norman Wilson
2016-07-17 12:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 23:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 4:06 ` scj
2016-07-18 4:09 ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-18 10:42 ` William Cheswick
[not found] <mailman.79.1468802270.30583.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-07-18 14:06 ` David
2016-07-19 12:41 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-10-19 20:53 ` Michael-John Turner
2016-10-19 22:35 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-07-18 14:35 Norman Wilson
2016-07-18 14:44 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-18 14:55 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:07 ` Steve Simon
2016-07-19 9:50 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-26 12:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-26 13:07 ` George Ross
2016-07-18 15:44 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-18 15:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-18 18:03 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:12 ` Steve Nickolas
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