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In lugnet.admin.general, "charles seyferth" <feanor23x@geocities.com>
writes:
> Did I really need to quote? I'm sure most everyone knows what's going on.
> Anyway, here's a possible sollution that I'm keen on (please hear the newbie
> out....)
Naw, in this case, quoting probably doesn't add much, because you're posting
something almost totally new.
> I sign up for a membership and, since the system advances member numbers
> numerically(?!?), I get stuck with #612. Nothing too exciting, but there's
> nothing I can do about it. It's there for life. However, the system (hereby
> refered to as LUGNET) also knows me by my real name (Charles Seyferth, or
> possibly charles.seyferth), which I also cannot change. The system also knows
> me as "Feanor23x", a name that nobody has taken offence to. I can change this
> later on, since LUGNET will acknowledge me by my unique user ID (612) and real
> name. If enough people are offended by my nickname, I'l be forced to change
> it. Now, when I want to log in as a member, I've got 3 options:
>
> 612
> charles seyferth (or charles.seyferth)
> feanor23x
>
> This way there is some flexibility, while still mainatining a sense of order
> and continuity
Well, the member-ID's are unique -mainly- for URLs on the outside, but also
for system-database purposes on the inside. In the URL sense, there's no
sense in having 2 or 3 or more ID's per person -- only one per person --
otherwise URLs are no longer unique and that messes up link coloring in
browsers, among other things.
You also really won't ever have to "log in" anytime -- unless you choose to
disable cookies in your web browser, or if two or more people share a
machine or a profile, or if you log in temporarily from a public place such
as a library.
As far as visability of the member-ID's, it's a goal to make them as
unobtrusive as possible...although there's no way to escape their appearance
in URLs of member pages. The member-ID's have no relation whatsoever to
news articles, except that the member-ID will probably be added
automatically by the system to the headers of any new news message, just
like it currently adds the X-Real-Life-Name header to each post. So the
member-ID (if you don't like it) isn't something that you're stuck with
during day-to-day communications...only in URLs of on-site member pages.
People wouldn't walk around going, "Pleased to meet you, two seventy-five.
I'm six twelve." You'd still say, "Hi, I'm Charles," or "Hi, I'm feanor23x"
in day-to-day communications.
--Todd
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