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Subject: 
Re: member id's: simple numbers or something more?
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general
Date: 
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:12:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) writes:
Not sure where I stand on all this or if it really matters to me, but
I thought I would mention this.

All (or most, anyway) of my current login names that I actually have
to type on a regular basis are cjc.  Yeah, I like the initials because
they were Caesar's, but they're also really easy to type quickly, and
3 characters happened to be the minimum on the system I changed them
on first.

Well, the nice part about this is that, unless you have cookies completely
disabled, you won't ever have to type your username.  So if your username is
something other than "cjc", then it wouldn't be a constant frustration to
switch back and forth.


In reality, though, nobody thinks of me as that.  Nor, really, do most
people think of me as Mike, Michael, Stanley, or anything resembling
(in English anyway) my given names.  Most people at work and most of
my friends call me Misha, a carryover from what my Russian instructors
and fellow classmates called me at DLI while I was in the Army.

Misha is actually what I tend to think of myself as, for reasons I
can't quite explain, and I use it on systems that I use via the web or
other ways that remember who I am (or who I should be) because of
cookies or whatever.

So would this plan/scheme you have in mind allow for me to be Misha?
It really amounts to Mike anyway.

Something to think about, I guess...

That *is* something deep to think about, wow.

--Todd



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(...) More than you think upto now I think..:-) What about profanity in other languages than English? Lugnet is a multi national community. One example: a simple and innocent looking abbreviation "ats2", which could be both read as its spelling (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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  Re: member id's: simple numbers or something more?
 
(...) Not sure where I stand on all this or if it really matters to me, but I thought I would mention this. All (or most, anyway) of my current login names that I actually have to type on a regular basis are cjc. Yeah, I like the initials because (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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