18 Jul
2016
18 Jul
'16
7:21 p.m.
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(a)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