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Re: member id's: simple numbers or something more?
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:22:24 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Selçuk Göre writes:
> > > [...] You already mentioned some "special" provisions to allow older
> > > users to continue their well known nicks, that are not related to their
> > > names,
> > 
> > No, that wasn't to give special treatment to anyone to use nicks • unrelated
> > to their names, it was citing examples of gray-area cases.
> 
> OK, I see the confusion now...  Sorry for being ambiguous.  When I wrote:
> 
>   "Anyway, here are some examples that do seem gray to me and may need
>   careful attention...(these have all been disclosed publicly on LUGNET
>   by their owners)"
> 
> in:
> 
>   http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=2082
> 
> I meant carefully and tactfully deciding whether or not those ID's would be
> OK, and if necessary, gently and diplomatically explaining why they • weren't.
> I didn't mean to imply that they were OK, a priori or otherwise, and
> certainly not because someone was an older user.  I just meant that they
> were potentially sensitive cases.
> 
> --Todd

I've already get it. But the confusing phrase was not this one, it was:

"Those are all fun names, of course, and these people could all *certainly*
continue to use these "handles" as they currently do in the newsgroups --
we're not talking here about changing anything anything -- just about how to
move forward."

:-)

Selçuk



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(...) Oh. YES, *that* is *really* ambiguous. I see how anyone could read the wrong thing in that. Oops. OK, let me reword that to say what I actually meant to say: "Those are all fun names, of course, and these people could all certainly continue to (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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(...) OK, I see the confusion now... Sorry for being ambiguous. When I wrote: "Anyway, here are some examples that do seem gray to me and may need careful attention...(these have all been disclosed publicly on LUGNET by their owners)" in: (URL) (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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