Hi Anthony, You can probably make up your mind quite quickly if you do a little experiment. Find all the sites that you personally have an account with that use your email address as a unique identifier. Change all of them to a new email address. It will take you days, and some of the transactions (Amazon, eBay, Paypal) will walk you through an exceptionally awkward multi-step confirmation process for security reasons. At some point during one of these processes, you will likely become confused about just what to do with which site. No two sites have quite the same email change process. I'm a digital adept and the process never fails to confuse me - I can only imagine how difficult it would be for someone who is not a computer professional to be successful.
Contrast the experience with sites where your email address is not the primary unique identifier. You'll probably be able to simply go to your account, change the email listed there (maybe confirm it a second time) and press the save button. I hope this is helpful, Michael Micheletti On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Anthony Hempell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone with an opinion on this? > > It's commonplace to have email addresses as the username for regular > users, since generally an email address is tied to only one individual; > > However business email addresses sometimes have multiple users, and/or > are sent to distribution lists; and possibly if a person uses their > own business email (ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and they move on / are > fired / etc... then the account enters into a period of limbo if > nobody can access the account since that email address is no longer > valid. > > Hence -- is it better to just ask for a username for business users > instead? > > Anthony > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
