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- From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver)
- Subject: Re: Login Name Administration & Conventions
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:48:59 GMT
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- Well, in principle I agree that letting people call themselves what ever
- they want is nice, there is a usefullness in making account names
- meaningful:
- o mail is more easily sent since user names are standardized
- o you avoid needing to create policies about what sorts
- of names are acceptable.
- o in a _large_ setting with thousands of users, standardized
- names are easier to manage and remember. Especially
- across different machines. What if I was gonzo@ralph,
- but gonzo was already taken at the main machine...
- Then there might be confusion about mail sent
- to gonzo.
-
- Some solutions include having a mail routing host which allows any
- names you want and then forwards it to real names.
-
- -Erik
-