Length of User names
Alek O. Komarnitsky
alek at spatial.com
Sat Jun 1 14:04:49 AEST 1991
In article <1991May31.215301.7574 at solbourne.com> imp at solbourne.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>In article <1991May31.173152.791 at mlb.semi.harris.com>
>dcb at dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart) writes:
>>At Harris, we finally decided to use the VMS standard of first
>>initial last name (truncated to 8 characters). Kind of a pain :-(
>
>This is especially a *PAIN* when the system administrator sees "M.
>Warner Losh" and gives you the login "mlosh" and people send mail to
>"wlosh" since your name is Warner. Fee and a pox be on all ye that
>try to standarize login names.
>
>Warner Losh imp at Solbourne.COM
>Free to a good home: 10,000 Miller Moths. Must promise not to breed them.
Agreed that there is no easy way to standardize login names.
aok, alek, alekk, akomarni, akomar, komar, might all work for me,
and what if there are duplicates? Not too sure where imp comes from,
but why not just add an E-mail alias of warner_losh and use that?
Alek Komarnitsky 303-449-0649
Software Tools Manager, Spatial Technology, Inc. 2425 55th Street, Bldg A
alek at spatial.com Boulder, CO 80301-5704
alek_komarnitsky at spatial.com
PS. I too have 10,000 Miller Moths to give away :-( followups to boulder.general
wizards might send more our way if we discuss username lengths too much :-)
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