On Jan 31, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Philip Newton wrote: > 2009/1/31 Mark Smith <[email protected]>: >> Denise and I will go through it and probably pare the list down some, >> but we'll be using it as the base to build the list from. I'd also >> rather err on the side of reserving too many names than too few, as >> you can't kick somebody off of a name later. > > Wasn't there somebody on LiveJournal who was not allowed to upgrade to > a paid account, ever, because his username was in use as an email > alias, and that would have conflicted with his paid account email? > (IIRC, he ended up getting a free rename token and his username got > reserved.)
"abuse". It's still registered on LJ, too. *g* So yeah, we'd like to be a little aggressive in what usernames we reserve. We'd rather not have to eminent-domain a username away from someone later on down the road when we need it. We also won't be allowing usernames that start or end with underscores, as Isabeau explained -- we will be using the user- subdomains exclusively, so we won't be allowing people to register usernames that would turn into invalid subdomains by internet standards. --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
