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marcvh
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response 402 of 467:
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Jan 14 22:56 UTC 2005 |
3 characters would be plenty, if minimizing size were the goal.
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gelinas
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response 403 of 467:
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Jan 15 04:12 UTC 2005 |
Re #396: See responses 10ff of this item.
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albaugh
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response 404 of 467:
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Jan 17 23:25 UTC 2005 |
Yes, I stand corrected. I don't know how I could have forgotten that - I
mean, it was only a little over a year ago... ;-)
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gelinas
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response 405 of 467:
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Jan 18 03:14 UTC 2005 |
I knew where to start and had the patience to wade through as much as
necessary to find it. :)
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albaugh
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response 406 of 467:
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Jan 26 17:37 UTC 2005 |
albaugh> I would like to retain the 8-character-maximum length for userIDs,
> under nextgrex, even if the O/S supports longer ones.
> #397 of 405: by John H. Remmers (remmers) on Fri, Jan 14, 2005 (14:33):
> Let's start by just discussing it here ... If a concensus emerges
> that people would like a shorter limit, staff can just *do* it.
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> My preference would be to retain the old 8-character limit
So, is there consensus, how is that judged, what does staff need to see to
reinstate the old 8-character limit?
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gelinas
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response 407 of 467:
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Jan 26 17:54 UTC 2005 |
I, for one, prefer a longer limit. It's hard enough expressing a personality
on a license plate; why make our online life as difficult?
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keesan
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response 408 of 467:
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Jan 26 18:20 UTC 2005 |
I don't see why a userid should be used to express a personality. You can
always change your name in the bbs (and probably in party). Longer usernames
are just more bother to filter. Nobody but twits seems to be using them, they
don't print out properly with 'w'.
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mooncat
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response 409 of 467:
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Jan 26 19:25 UTC 2005 |
RE #408- Sindi, names, and thus handles, mean a lot to some people.
Names convey a great deal- more than most people think.
Just because you see nothing in it does not mean that other people do
not.
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gelinas
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response 410 of 467:
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Jan 26 19:30 UTC 2005 |
(Nor does it mean that there is nothing there.)
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tod
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response 411 of 467:
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Jan 26 19:32 UTC 2005 |
The long name standard is annoying.
I'm with Sindi on this.
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marcvh
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response 412 of 467:
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Jan 26 19:46 UTC 2005 |
Usernames are supposed to be an unambiguous, easy-to-type easy-to-remember
way to refer to a specific user. They are not primarily intended to be a
creative outlet.
Long ones do not serve this purpose better, and I say this as someone with
a long name which arguably could "benefit" from longer usernames.
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keesan
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response 413 of 467:
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Jan 26 19:57 UTC 2005 |
Why are you marcvh instead of mvh?
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marcvh
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response 414 of 467:
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Jan 26 20:59 UTC 2005 |
I tend to think that usernames which are mostly pronouncable sequences
work better than usernames where the letters are all consonants. It's
also possible that mvh was taken when I registered nineteen years ago;
hard to remember. Maybe we should get rid of usernames and just use UIDs
for these things.
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cross
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response 415 of 467:
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Jan 26 21:29 UTC 2005 |
Hey! That'd be like TOPS-10!
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albaugh
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response 416 of 467:
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Jan 26 23:04 UTC 2005 |
I'm waiting for remmers to comment. I'll try to take things to a vote "if
I have to", for all the good it would do.
In the mean time, grex mailbox handling is broken, AFAIC.
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twenex
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response 417 of 467:
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Jan 26 23:56 UTC 2005 |
When I see "ken" and "dmr" and suchlike, that's when I miss having a middle
name. It's not as common in the UK as it is in the US.
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sholmes
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response 418 of 467:
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Jan 27 02:50 UTC 2005 |
http://www.humnri.com/HumZone/Jokes/read.asp?id=429&JokesCatid=14
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other
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response 419 of 467:
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Jan 27 02:55 UTC 2005 |
LAME!
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scholar
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response 420 of 467:
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Jan 27 03:23 UTC 2005 |
LUST!
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janc
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response 421 of 467:
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Jan 27 15:59 UTC 2005 |
My personal opinion is that people getting hot and bothered over long names
are letting themselves get overheated by a small number of prank accounts.
Below is a list of all the more-than-eight-character logins on the system
right now. Are they all evil? It is bad for "Ron Jeremy" to have the login
"ronjeremy"? Should "Mark Silverstone" not have the login "silverstone"? Is
"siegfried" an unreasonable login name? Is "intellectual" too hard to type?
Harder than, say "l01010l0"?
Personally, I think everything up to 12 characters is perfectly fine. There
are a total of 17 longer logins which don't bother me much either, if only
because I don't expect people to be logging in to them much. If people
really care I wouldn't object to reducing the newuser limit to 12 (and
increasing the webnewuser to 12). I don't think that would block any
reasonably desireable logins.
However, it's nice to have a nice login name. With tens of thousands of
users, it isn't always easy to find one. Allowing logins longer than
eight characters means more people have more chances of having a nice
login. Yes, it also increases the range of obnoxious logins that obnoxious
users might choose, but if you spend all your time focusing on the obnoxious
people instead of the nice people you are just going to make yourself
miserable. Let's be nice to the nice and not worry so much about the
obnoxious.
ronjeremy Ron Jeremy
jonasyorg Jonas Yorg
thisisgay jason wilson
creative2 Teresa Thomas
pachecosc adriano
rajeev212 rajeev
simulacra Engin Daloglu
maldini03 budi maiden
meskalina Bartosz Ogonowski
amitchell Andrew Mitchell
emyrrdin6 Emrys Myrrdin
testectbc teste
p08020109 Waqas Burney
nullvalue null
mardonius fernando martinez
andrew2iz Andrzej
nightmare NighTmarE
coderjon0 Jon Bryan
indian123 QWERTY
barmaglot B r a n d s m g
pileswasp Iain
poyzunivy Heathyr F Hoffman
athnetius Conrad,,,
giancarlo Juan Carlos
unidade05 Un1d4d3_O5
misiek999 Vlad
jagadeesh Jag
ofitr953r Fuck Hankins
anujpuri1 anuj puri1
siegfried Siegfried Rudzio
centaur78 dan
lnitrousl Harry Pua
silentman faisal
jamespong James Chau
kcfanatic Darren Nichols
selvar911 selvar911
bimaldswer Bimal D Swer
hentaijiji Hentai
satyen4you satyendra
edgarcsosa Edgar Cosme Sosa
starrdruid Aleksey
o123456789 onetwothree
doublechaz Charles Mitchell
etat613613 tate christie
tritobagus Trito bagus
abangbatax abangbatax
juancarlos juan carlos
davidspant Dsavid Sabido Pantoja
sasuandrei sasu andreio
jeffreyuop Jeffrey
sharadstud Sharad
cyberactiv frat
myth1heart Marilyn Giglio
jollyjoker jolly joker
craigcolby Craig Colby
thebrother The Brother
wujeksopel Wujek Sopel
handalatif handalatif
titiritero El titiritero
masturbator fiomger
greenscreen Adam McFillin
littertiger little tiger
admincarlos hans
hatepimples hate pimples
silverstone Mark Silverstone
abcdefghijk Ateste
shakespeare William Shakespeare
ryan1111111 Ryan1 Test
nobitagamer Yahoo Operator
bhatiavarun Varun Bhatia
kcmiata2001 Andrew Kain
elvispresley Elvis Aaron Presley
intellectual The Intellectual
foodrunner44 Fatboy Slim
nharmonthefag nate
terminalhacker terminal
abrahamlincoln Abraham Lincoln
sherlockholmes Sherlock Holmes
hongkongphooey Hong Kong Phooey
thomasjefferson Thomas Jefferson
georgewashington George Washington
asddsaasddsaasddsa sad
zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba WWW
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Anotherteste
tridotforwardemailtorichard asdf
triludaaisagheyfrickenfaggot TRILUDAA
triludaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa james
mfpmfpmfpmfpmfpmfpmfpmfpmfpmfp klooger
qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq The Name Greater than All Imaginable Names
qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq Archaic Revival
mygrexaccountforemailidonotwant Kate Sandler
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keesan
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response 422 of 467:
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Jan 27 18:03 UTC 2005 |
Judging from the above list, anything more than 12 characters apppears to be
the work of vandals, or at the very least of users who don't intend to use
these logins - Anotherteste . I would cut it off at 12 or even 11.
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mooncat
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response 423 of 467:
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Jan 27 18:35 UTC 2005 |
I think 12 is good.
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albaugh
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response 424 of 467:
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Jan 27 18:53 UTC 2005 |
How about split the difference, and go with 10. :-) Seriously, though, how
is the decision arrived at, what is needed to deploy?
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mary
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response 425 of 467:
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Jan 27 19:14 UTC 2005 |
10 or 12 sounds fine by me too.
The decision is arrived at when there is a sense of what is
reasonable from a reasonable majority. And those who disagree have
had a chance to state their case.
I think we're moving in that direction. I trust staff's judgement
to know when it's time. We really don't need a vote on this, Kevin.
Staff can handle it just fine.
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cross
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response 426 of 467:
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Jan 27 20:29 UTC 2005 |
I'd say 12 is good.
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